A universal basic income would be the best way to give everyone the opportunity to do more unpaid but incredibly important work,… — Rutger Bregman Copy Share Image
Instead of a universal basic income, we could have a basic income guarantee. Or, as economists prefer to call it, a negative… — Rutger Bregman Copy Share Image
“Inequality? The countries with the biggest disparities in wealth are precisely those with the longest workweeks.” — Rutger Bregman Copy Share Image
I know that there are many excellent arguments for a universal form of basic income. Since everyone would get it, it would… — Rutger Bregman Copy Share Image
I think one of the most important facts of basic income would be that it's not only a redistribution of income, but… — Rutger Bregman Copy Share Image
“Income inequality,” say two leading scientists who have studied twenty-four developed countries, “makes us all less happy with our lives, even if… — Rutger Bregman Copy Share Image
“Recently, the International Monetary Fund published a report which revealed that too much inequality even inhibits economic growth.22 Perhaps the most fascinating… — Rutger Bregman Copy Share Image
A universal basic income means not only that millions of people would receive unconditional cash payments, but also that millions of people… — Rutger Bregman Copy Share Image
A world where wages no longer rise still needs consumers. Middle-class purchasing power has been maintained through loans, loans and more loans.… — Rutger Bregman Copy Share Image
“Borders are the single biggest cause of discrimination in all of world history. Inequality gaps between people living in the same country… — Rutger Bregman Copy Share Image
“Recently, the International Monetary Fund published a report which revealed that too much inequality even inhibits economic growth.22 Perhaps the most fascinating… — Rutger Bregman Copy Share Image
“If all the developed countries would let in just 3% more immigrants, the world’s poor would have $305 billion more to spend, say scientists… — Rutger Bregman Copy Share Image
“When Lehman Brothers collapsed on September 15, 2008, and inaugurated the biggest crisis since the 1930s, there were no real alternatives to hand. No… — Rutger Bregman Copy Share Image
I think one of the most important facts of basic income would be that it's not only a redistribution of income, but also of… — Rutger Bregman Copy Share Image
The great thing about money is that people can use it to buy things they need instead of things self-appointed experts think they need. — Rutger Bregman Copy Share Image
“The idea that the GDP still serves as an accurate gauge of social welfare is one of the most widespread myths of our times.… — Rutger Bregman Copy Share Image
Most of Mark Zuckerberg's income is just rent collected off the millions of picture and video posts that we give away daily for free.… — Rutger Bregman Copy Share Image
“To calculate the GDP, numerous data points have to be linked together and hundreds of wholly subjective choices made regarding what to count and… — Rutger Bregman Copy Share Image
“Countless studies have shown that people who work less are more satisfied with their lives.37 In a recent poll conducted among working women, German… — Rutger Bregman Copy Share Image
“Precisely when we should be shouldering the historic task of investing this rich, safe, and healthy existence with meaning, we’ve buried utopia instead. There’s… — Rutger Bregman Copy Share Image
Believing in the good of humanity is a revolutionary act - it means that we don't need all those managers and CEO's, kings and… — Rutger Bregman Copy Share Image
Poor people aren't making dumb decisions because they are dumb, but because they're living in a context in which anyone would make dumb decisions. — Rutger Bregman Copy Share Image
“The bottom line is that wealth can be concentrated somewhere, but that doesn’t also mean that’s where it’s being created. This is just as… — Rutger Bregman Copy Share Image
