Nicolas Berggruen
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Nicolas Berggruen
@nicolasberggruen.bsky.social
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Co-Founder of Berggruen Institute, Noema Mag Co-author of #RenovatingDemocracy (http://amzn.to/2CBhxJ3) A believer that ideas can make a better world. #IdeasMatter www.nicolasberggruen.com
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As AI spreads across all enterprises, our divided societies will fracture further unless there is some form of distribution that shares the wealth.

My piece on Universal Basic Capital in the @financialtimes.com mes.com

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Universal basic credit would create a fair AI economy
Predistribution, not redistribution, is needed to close the inequality gap
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Life doesn’t owe you anything - it is you who owe it everything. Your bond is to live.
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“In moments of across-the-board upheaval such as we are presently living through, the best guide to the future comes from looking at similarly portentous periods in the long past.”

—Nathan Gardels

#history
Creative Disruption In The Order Of The World | NOEMA
Today’s global rupture is like the shift from ancient China’s Spring and Autumn stability to the tumult of the Warring States period.
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Given our world in flux, Michael Sandel’s illumination of what it means to be a good human and his infusion of ethics and reasoning into public discourse are necessary.

@berggruen.org is proud to award Michael Sandel with the 2025 Berggruen Prize for Philosophy & Culture.
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Ideas for a Changing World.
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AI is a train we can’t get off - let’s work on the journey and the destination.
AI
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Just as there was a time before money, there will be one after. AI as a money maker could become its un-maker—displacing not only intermediaries but the system itself.
Throughout the arc of civilization, money has served as motivation, medium, and measure—an application of human energy and desire. So it is, for now, with AI. But as AI evolves toward true agency, it will no longer merely generate wealth; it will transcend and potentially disintermediate it.
Humans may be all equal, yet not within cultures, communities, and families - equality is a noble yet unrealistic wish.
Culture
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A look inside @noemamag.com ....
Noema is a magazine whose goal is not to “keep up” but to slow down and think.

Here’s a behind-the-scenes look at how we do what we do.

#noema #magazines #independentpublishing
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We're thrilled to announce the release of Issue VI! 🙌

The theme is “Paradigm Shifts,” with beautiful cover art by Mia Angioy.

Check out this year's edition & grab a copy for yourself — it's on pre-sale now 🎉

#noema #magazines #indiemagazines
Introducing Noema VI: Paradigm Shifts | NOEMA
Profound transformations occurring simultaneously mark our new Age of Upheaval.
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Humans may be all equal, yet they aren’t within cultures, communities and families - equality is an unrealistic wish, albeit noble.
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Divided over how to define “the good life,” culture wars are being fought across the Western world over who gets to normalize the norms of society.

Such fights could lead to endless strife & the ultimate downfall of the West as a common civilizational presence, Nathan Gardels writes.

#nationalism
‘Civilizational Nationalism’ | NOEMA
The West is in conflict with itself.
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“An approach to health that is confined to the individual & ignores planetary destabilization is like carefully tending a wilting flower while ignoring the poisoned soil, acid rain & encroaching desert around it.”

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#health #healthcare #planetary
The Future Of Health On A Damaged Planet | NOEMA
The future of health will be planetary or there will be no future health at all.
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Now we are building forces such as AIs which could escape our control and overwhelm us, yet also enhance ourselves and create life beyond ours, furthering our quest to survive and replicate.

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Culture
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Western culture equates the life journey with the capability of humans and individuals. We went from being overwhelmed by nature to empowering ourselves; even when we believe that we are in the hands of God, we think that we are able to affect our destiny by our behavior.
Perception is reality. Our reality - with its illusions. The closest to a minimum reality we can reach is simply the awareness of being.
Obvious political might resides where visible: the White House, Zhongnanhai; while civil society’s power is embedded in daily life - that’s where Silicon Valley’s influence, or its equivalent in China, resides.

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Politics
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