“people living in unequal societies spend more time worrying about how others see them.” — Rutger Bregman Community Copy Share Image
A Dutchman can't easily get away from cheese. I was dropped into a cauldron of cheese when I was young. — Rutger Bregman Away Copy Share Image
News reports following a natural disaster are almost always dominated by stories of looting and violence, but in many cases such stories… — Rutger Bregman Always Copy Share Image
The most daunting challenges of our times, from climate change to the ageing population, demand an entrepreneurial state unafraid to take a… — Rutger Bregman Challenges Copy Share Image
Private companies mostly manufacture medications that resemble what we've already got. They get it patented and, with a hefty dose of marketing,… — Rutger Bregman Drug Copy Share Image
While it won't solve all the world's ills - and ideas such as a rent cap and more social housing are necessary… — Rutger Bregman Ideas Copy Share Image
I am part of a broad social movement. Ten years ago, it would have unimaginable for some random Dutch historian to go… — Rutger Bregman Go 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
As our farms and factories grew more efficient, they accounted for a shrinking share of our economy. And the more productive agriculture… — Rutger Bregman Agriculture 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
It's actually more than 700 case studies that show that, especially in times of crisis, we show our best selves. And we… — Rutger Bregman Altruism 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
“Productive women, seniors, or immigrants won’t displace men, young adults, or hardworking citizens from their jobs. In fact, they create more employment… — Rutger Bregman Workforce Copy Share Image
Well, the news is mostly about things that go wrong, right? It's about sensationalist incidents that happened today, instead of things that… — Rutger Bregman End of the day Copy Share Image
“If there’s one thing that we capitalists have in common with the communists of old, it’s a pathological obsession with gainful employment.… — Rutger Bregman Capitalism Copy Share Image
“Fighting poverty has huge benefits that we have been blind to until now,” Shafir points out. In fact, he suggests, in addition… — Rutger Bregman Poverty Copy Share Image
“Take a Somalian toddler. She has a 20% probability of dying before reaching the age of five. Now compare: American frontline soldiers… — Rutger Bregman Civil war Copy Share Image
But I think 'Love, Actually' has a very realistic view of human nature in line with the latest scientific evidence. The opening… — Rutger Bregman Character 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
“Precisely when we should be shouldering the historic task of investing this rich, safe, and healthy existence with meaning, we’ve buried utopia… — Rutger Bregman Better world Copy Share Image
“This puts the choice in the hands of the poor,” says Michael Faye, founder of GiveDirectly, the organization behind Bernard’s windfall. “And… — Rutger Bregman Poor people 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 Filthy rich 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
“Giving away free housing, it turned out, was actually a windfall for the state budget. State economists calculated that a drifter living… — Rutger Bregman Cost Copy Share Image
“Or take school attendance. Everybody seems to have different ideas on how to raise it. We should pay for uniforms. Advance school… — Rutger Bregman Different ideas Copy Share Image
“What we need is a “dashboard” complete with an array of indicators to track the things that make life worthwhile – money… — Rutger Bregman Community service Copy Share Image
“In a world that’s getting ever richer, where cows produce more milk and robots produce more stuff, there’s more room for friends,… — Rutger Bregman Business Copy Share Image
“Welcome, in other words, to the Land of Plenty. To the good life, where almost everyone is rich, safe, and healthy. Where… — Rutger Bregman Carbon emissions 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,… — Rutger Bregman Development aid Copy Share Image
A worldwide shift to a shorter working week could cut the CO2 emitted this century by half. Countries with a shorter working… — Rutger Bregman Climate Copy Share Image
New ideas rarely come from the moderate parties in The Hague or Washington, in Brussels or Westminster. The world's political centres are… — Rutger Bregman Change Copy Share Image
Basic income would give people the most important freedom: the freedom of deciding for themselves what they want to do with their… — Rutger Bregman Freedom Copy Share Image
Year after year, politicians have drafted huge piles of legislation on the assumption that most people are not good. And we know… — Rutger Bregman Good 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 Developed countries Copy Share Image
Research suggests that someone who is constantly drawing on their creative abilities can, on average, be productive for no more than six… — Rutger Bregman Average 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 Facts Copy Share Image
I was born in 1988, one year before the fall of the Berlin Wall, and people of my generation were taught that… — Rutger Bregman Berlin wall 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… — Rutger Bregman Bottom line Copy Share Image
Bankers are the most obvious class of closet freeloaders, but they are certainly not alone. Many a lawyer and an accountant wields… — Rutger Bregman Alone Copy Share Image
I first read 'Lord of the Flies' as a teenager. I remember feeling disillusioned afterwards, but not for a second did I… — Rutger Bregman Books Copy Share Image
