Total eclipse: The terminator moves faster than you think

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Between the new and full moon the terminator - the line demarcating what is lit from what is dark changes all the time. This is imperceptible with the naked eye.	A telescope at low magnification reveals the moon in all its glory. At a higher power with manual control you have to keep moving to keep up, as the moon other-worldly slides out of view.
What of the terminator between poverty and wealth; ultrapoverty and ultrawealthy?	It is plain to see and so - easy to deny; but their instruments are hopeless, they watch indoors, fixed on their screens.

Total Solar Eclipse – August 12, 2026

See also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terminator_(solar) 

Previously: 'terminator' 

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'