“Giving away free housing, it turned out, was actually a windfall for the state budget. State economists calculated that a drifter living… — Rutger Bregman Copy Share Image
“Emancipation of women? Countries with short workweeks consistently top gender-equality rankings.” — Rutger Bregman Short Work Copy Share Image
A universal basic income would be the best way to give everyone the opportunity to do more unpaid but incredibly important work,… — Rutger Bregman Best Copy Share Image
“Anybody who forays outside the “Overton window” faces a rocky road. He or she will quickly be branded as “unrealistic” or “unreasonable”… — Rutger Bregman Different opinions Copy Share Image
Employees have been worrying about the rising tide of automation for 200 years now, and for 200 years employers have been assuring… — Rutger Bregman Automation Copy Share Image
Government isn't there just to administer life support to failing markets. Without the government, many of those markets would not even exist. — Rutger Bregman Exist Copy Share Image
Remember: real politics isn't about figureheads and seats in parliament. Real politics is about ideas. And there can be no doubt regarding… — Rutger Bregman Doubt Copy Share Image
“In fact, we are living in an age of biblical prophecies come true. What would have seemed miraculous in the Middle Ages… — Rutger Bregman Life Copy Share Image
My life philosophy is that you need a boring private life if you want to have a more exciting public life. — Rutger Bregman Boring Copy Share Image
Maybe utopianism is my form of religion in a world without God. — Rutger Bregman Form Copy Share Image
“Whether we’re searching for new dreams or rediscovering old ones, we can’t move forward without looking to the past. It’s the only… — Rutger Bregman Dreams Copy Share Image
“In the twenty-first century, the real elite are those born not in the right family or the right class but in the… — Rutger Bregman Family Copy Share Image
Countries with short workweeks consistently top gender' equality rankings. The central issue is achieving a more equitable distribution of work. — Rutger Bregman Equality Copy Share Image
If I say most people are pretty decent that may sound nice and warm but actually it's really radical and subversive and… — Rutger Bregman History Copy Share Image
“Opening borders to labor would boost wealth by much more–one thousand times more. In numbers: $65,000,000,000,000. In words: sixty-five trillion dollars.” — Rutger Bregman Money 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… — Rutger Bregman Free speech 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 Economic growth Copy Share Image
“As illusions go, this one is pretty stubborn. When you’re obsessed with efficiency and productivity, it’s difficult to see the real value… — Rutger Bregman Education Copy Share Image
“So in concrete terms, just how much dumber does poverty make you? “Our effects correspond to between 13 and 14 IQ points,”… — Rutger Bregman Poverty Copy Share Image
“I’m heartened by our dissatisfaction, because dissatisfaction is a world away from indifference. The widespread nostalgia, the yearning for a past that… — Rutger Bregman Desire Copy Share Image
“We need a new lodestar, a new map of the world that once again includes a distant, uncharted continent – “Utopia.” By… — Rutger Bregman Dreams Copy Share Image
Most bayonets throughout history have probably not been used because soldiers just can't do it, something holds them back... the same goes… — Rutger Bregman Enemy 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 Economists Copy Share Image
“We’re indignant that men get paid more than women for doing the same work, and that white Americans earn more than black… — Rutger Bregman Black americans Copy Share Image
I've been thinking that school, or certainly the traditional English public school model, is like a prison, in that you can't get… — Rutger Bregman Bullying Copy Share Image
