Utopia for Realists: How We Can Build the Ideal World
Rutger Bregman, "Utopia for Realists: How We Can Build the Ideal World"
English | ISBN: 0316471895 | 2017 | 336 pages | AZW3 | 389 KB
English | ISBN: 0316471895 | 2017 | 336 pages | AZW3 | 389 KB
Universal basic income. A 15-hour workweek. Open borders. Does it sound too good to be true? One of Europe's leading young thinkers shows how we can build an ideal world today.
"A more politically radical Malcolm Gladwell." – New York Times
After working all day at jobs we often dislike, we buy things we don't need. Rutger Bregman, a Dutch historian, reminds us it needn't be this way – and in some places it isn't. Rutger Bregman's TED Talk about universal basic income seemed impossibly radical when he delivered it in 2014. A quarter of a million views later, the subject of that video is being seriously considered by leading economists and government leaders the world over. It's just one of the many utopian ideas that Bregman proves is possible today.
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