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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... cost vast sums of money, but with little to show for it. In the U.S., where the cost of healthcare is the highest on the planet, the life expectancy for many is actually going down. All the while, the market and commercial interests are ...
... cost vast sums of money, but with little to show for it. In the U.S., where the cost of healthcare is the highest on the planet, the life expectancy for many is actually going down. All the while, the market and commercial interests are ...
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... costs, and social services, these thirteen troublemakers have racked up a bill estimated at £400,000 ($650,000) or more.1 Per year. The strain on city services and local charities is too great for things to go on this way. So Broadway ...
... costs, and social services, these thirteen troublemakers have racked up a bill estimated at £400,000 ($650,000) or more.1 Per year. The strain on city services and local charities is too great for things to go on this way. So Broadway ...
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... cost? Some £50,000 a year, including the social workers' wages. In other words, not only did the project help thirteen people, it also cut costs considerably.5 Even the Economist had to conclude that the “most efficient way to spend ...
... cost? Some £50,000 a year, including the social workers' wages. In other words, not only did the project help thirteen people, it also cut costs considerably.5 Even the Economist had to conclude that the “most efficient way to spend ...
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... (cost: $350) benefited slightly more, but researchers subsequently calculated that it would have been much more effective to lump the aid worker's salary in with the grants.11 As the report dryly concluded, the results imply “a huge ...
... (cost: $350) benefited slightly more, but researchers subsequently calculated that it would have been much more effective to lump the aid worker's salary in with the grants.11 As the report dryly concluded, the results imply “a huge ...
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... cost? A Rwandan study estimated that donating one pregnant cow costs around $3,000 (including a milking workshop). That's five years' wages for a Rwandan.17 Or take the patchwork of courses offered to the poor: Study after study has ...
... cost? A Rwandan study estimated that donating one pregnant cow costs around $3,000 (including a milking workshop). That's five years' wages for a Rwandan.17 Or take the patchwork of courses offered to the poor: Study after study has ...
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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