Saturday, January 03, 2026

Universal Basic [Income and Capital] c/o N. Berggruen

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AI ..

Pope Leo XIV - 'Distributional justice'
Pope Leo XIII "Rerum Novarum" 1891?^
 
 *Ethics - see below.

Baby bond schemes -
Australia Superannuation programme
USA MAGA accounts
Proposed European Sovereignty Fund?
UK?

Globally? "We're in this together, remember"
 


UNIVERSAL BASIC INCOME
UNIVERSAL BASIC CAPITAL 
 
PREDISTRIBUTION not
REDISTRIBUTION

^History: Impact of the industrial revolution
 

.. ECONOMY

  Diminishing value of labour
 Global wealth inequality
 US: top 10% own 93% of all equities
Europe: .. nearly 60% of all wealth.
Bottom 50% owns just 5%
 

*The ecological and ethical impacts from the energy demands of AI still need to be addressed. Financial 'rewards' for the masses, must not become the 'cake' - the bribe for the public to enter into a conspiratorial dyad with technology. PJ

Source: N. Berggruen, Universal basic capital would create a fair AI economy, Opinion, FTWeekend, 1-2 November. 2025, p.13. https://berggruen.org/eu

https://www.ft.com/content/9b93e02a-c693-4070-9094-a2f532dfa929

See also: 'economics' : 'poverty' : 'AI' : 'inequality' : 'universal'