Government should let airlines fail: Venture capitalist Chamath Palihapitiya

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Annotated May 3, 2026Public

The ultimate capitalist reality check. If you take the upside risk in a bull market, you have to eat the downside risk in a black swan event. Bailing out billionaires just distorts the market.

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Government should let airlines fail: Venture capitalist Chamath Palihapitiya

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Are you arguing to let airlines, for example, fail?
Yes.
Why?
I mean, how does that make sense in the broader scheme of the economy?
Because when you look at what it means, this is why I'm saying, like, this is a lie that's been purported by Wall Street.
When a company fails, it does not fire their employees.
It goes through a packaged bankruptcy, right?
If anything, what happens is the people who have the pensions inside those companies, the employees of these companies, end up owning more of the company.
The people that get wiped out are the speculators that own the unsecured tranches of debt or the folks that own the equity.
And by the way, those are the rules of the game.
That's right, because these are the people that purport to be the most sophisticated investors in the world.
They deserve to get wiped out.

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