Utopia for Realists: How We Can Build the Ideal WorldLittle, Brown, 14 mars 2017 - 336 pages 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. Utopia for Realists is one of those rare books that takes you by surprise and challenges what you think can happen. From a Canadian city that once completely eradicated poverty, to Richard Nixon's near implementation of a basic income for millions of Americans, Bregman takes us on a journey through history, and beyond the traditional left-right divides, as he champions ideas whose time have come. Every progressive milestone of civilization -- from the end of slavery to the beginning of democracy -- was once considered a utopian fantasy. Bregman's book, both challenging and bracing, demonstrates that new utopian ideas, like the elimination of poverty and the creation of the fifteen-hour workweek, can become a reality in our lifetime. Being unrealistic and unreasonable can in fact make the impossible inevitable, and it is the only way to build the ideal world. |
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... what may just be the most brilliant idea ever–the dish-washer–that our Italian peasant got swept up in the march of progress. And what a wild ride it has been. The past two centuries have seen explosive growth in both population and ...
... what may just be the most brilliant idea ever–the dish-washer–that our Italian peasant got swept up in the march of progress. And what a wild ride it has been. The past two centuries have seen explosive growth in both population and ...
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... What would have seemed miraculous in the Middle Ages is now commonplace: the blind restored to sight, cripples who can walk, and the dead returned to life. Take the Argus II, a brain implant that restores a measure of sight to people ...
... What would have seemed miraculous in the Middle Ages is now commonplace: the blind restored to sight, cripples who can walk, and the dead returned to life. Take the Argus II, a brain implant that restores a measure of sight to people ...
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... what it was in 1900. Fewer people are going hungry, too. In our Land of Plenty we might not be able to snatch cooked geese from the air, but the number of people suffering from malnutrition has shrunk by more than a third since 1990 ...
... what it was in 1900. Fewer people are going hungry, too. In our Land of Plenty we might not be able to snatch cooked geese from the air, but the number of people suffering from malnutrition has shrunk by more than a third since 1990 ...
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... what's actually in store. The utopian Land of Plenty tells us all about what life was like in the Middle Ages. Grim. Or rather, that the lives of almost everyone almost everywhere have almost always been grim. After all, every culture ...
... what's actually in store. The utopian Land of Plenty tells us all about what life was like in the Middle Ages. Grim. Or rather, that the lives of almost everyone almost everywhere have almost always been grim. After all, every culture ...
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... What's more, every person is monitored by a vast network of informants. If someone commits a transgression, the sinner is verbally browbeaten until they are convinced of their own wickedness and freely submit to being stoned by the rest ...
... What's more, every person is monitored by a vast network of informants. If someone commits a transgression, the sinner is verbally browbeaten until they are convinced of their own wickedness and freely submit to being stoned by the rest ...
Table des matières
The End of Poverty | |
The Bizarre Tale of President Nixon and His Basic Income Bill | |
New Figures for a New | |
A FifteenHour Workweek | |
Why It Doesnt Pay to Be a Banker | |
Race Against the Machine | |
Beyond the Gates of the Land of Plenty | |
How Ideas Change the World | |
Epilogue | |
Acknowledgements | |
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