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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... poverty in 1820, by 1981 that percentage had dropped to 44%, and now, just a few decades later, it is under 10%.1 If this trend holds, the extreme poverty that has been an abiding feature of life will soon be eradicated for good. Even ...
... poverty in 1820, by 1981 that percentage had dropped to 44%, and now, just a few decades later, it is under 10%.1 If this trend holds, the extreme poverty that has been an abiding feature of life will soon be eradicated for good. Even ...
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... , the Land of Plenty was reserved for a small elite in the wealthy West. Those days are over. Since China has opened itself to capitalism, 700 million Chinese have been lifted 7 out of extreme poverty. Africa, too, is fast shedding.
... , the Land of Plenty was reserved for a small elite in the wealthy West. Those days are over. Since China has opened itself to capitalism, 700 million Chinese have been lifted 7 out of extreme poverty. Africa, too, is fast shedding.
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How We Can Build the Ideal World Rutger Bregman. 7 out of extreme poverty. Africa, too, is fast shedding its reputation for economic devastation; the continent is now home to six of the world's ten fastest-growing economies.8 By the year ...
How We Can Build the Ideal World Rutger Bregman. 7 out of extreme poverty. Africa, too, is fast shedding its reputation for economic devastation; the continent is now home to six of the world's ten fastest-growing economies.8 By the year ...
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... poverty. More understood that utopia is dangerous when taken too seriously. “One needs to be able to believe passionately and also be able to see the absurdity of one's own beliefs and laugh at them,” observes philosopher and leading ...
... poverty. More understood that utopia is dangerous when taken too seriously. “One needs to be able to believe passionately and also be able to see the absurdity of one's own beliefs and laugh at them,” observes philosopher and leading ...
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... Russell once wrote. Elsewhere he continued, “It is not a finished Utopia that we ought to desire, but a world where imagination and hope are alive and active.”36 Money is better than poverty, if only for financial reasons.
... Russell once wrote. Elsewhere he continued, “It is not a finished Utopia that we ought to desire, but a world where imagination and hope are alive and active.”36 Money is better than poverty, if only for financial reasons.
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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