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. And sure, we have fun doing it. But we also have no alternative - after all,… — 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
