Yuval Noah Harari, Rutger Bregman, Zanny Minton Beddoes and Victor Pinchuk | YES Online Conversation

00:05 Opening remarks from Victor Pinchuk 04:42 Why is Rutger Bregman hopeful about humankind? 07:42 Yuval Harari: “I’m not sure that friendliness is what enables us to cooperate in very large numbers” 09:47 Rutger Bragman’s interpretation of human pre-history 13:14 Yuval Harari’s view on turning point in history of humankind 18:35 Is the question of human nature important and does it dictate how societies and civilizations actually look like? 24:51 The nature of large-scale societies 30:02 If human nature is basically decent, so how do we get slavery, genocide, Nazis, GULAGs, and all that? 34:08 The scale of changes after the first year of pandemic – scientific success and political failure? 42:49 Is pandemic an accelerator of pre-existing disruptive trends? What does it mean for existing economies? 48:09 The current conflict between facts, fiction, fake news and conspiracy theories 54:21 Have people’s expectations with regard to government and social change evolved over the past year? 56:35 Will there be a shift in our collective desire to do something about climate change? 1:00:14 Relationship between the US and China 1:07:30 The discussion around the concept of universal basic income 1:13:38 Will the post-pandemic world have less sense of global solidarity or more? 1:20:19 The largest geopolitical risk in the next few years to come Yalta European Strategy (YES) with the Victor Pinchuk Foundation continues its series of online conversations on global challenges and their implications for Ukraine. During the event, historians and bestselling authors Yuval Noah Harari and Rutger Bregman spoke with Zanny Minton Beddoes, editor-in-chief of The Economist. Victor Pinchuk, founder of YES, Victor Pinchuk Foundation, EastOne group, opened the conversation.