There's always selfish behavior. There are lots of examples of people hoarding. But we've seen in this pandemic that the vast majority… — Rutger Bregman Behavior Copy Share Image
A lot of great things are going on. In many ways, the past 30 years have been the best in world history.… — Rutger Bregman Best Copy Share Image
I've solved my phone addiction by deleting all the apps I was addicted to - email, browser - and getting my wife… — Rutger Bregman Addiction Copy Share Image
It's important to make a distinction between the news and journalism. The news is about recent, incidental and sensational events. It's mostly… — Rutger Bregman Events Copy Share Image
“If a political party or a religious sect had even a fraction of the influence that the advertising industry has on us… — Rutger Bregman Children 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
“Free money works. Already, research has correlated unconditional cash disbursements with reductions in crime, child mortality, malnutrition, teenage pregnancy, and truancy, and… — Rutger Bregman Economic growth 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
“Borders are the single biggest cause of discrimination in all of world history. Inequality gaps between people living in the same country… — Rutger Bregman History Copy Share Image
“The inventor of GDP cautioned against including in its calculation expenditure for the military, advertising, and the financial sector,33 but his advice… — Rutger Bregman Deaf ears Copy Share Image
“people living in unequal societies spend more time worrying about how others see them.” — Rutger Bregman Community Copy Share Image
“Countless aid organizations and governments are convinced that they know what poor people need, and invest in schools, solar panels, or cattle.… — Rutger Bregman Education Copy Share Image
“For us today, it is still difficult to imagine a future society in which paid labor is not the be-all and end-all… — Rutger Bregman Change Copy Share Image
“Yet just eighty years ago it still seemed an impossible mission when U.S. President Herbert Hoover was tasked with beating back the… — Rutger Bregman Business Copy Share Image
One of the basic lessons of history is that things can be different. — Rutger Bregman Be different Copy Share Image
“Besides being blind to lots of good things, the GDP also benefits from all manner of human suffering. Gridlock, drug abuse, adultery?… — Rutger Bregman Black friday 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
“In fact, it has become increasingly profitable not to innovate. Imagine just how much progress we’ve missed out on because thousands of… — Rutger Bregman 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 Copy Share Image
History will tell you that borders are not inevitable, they hardly existed at the end of the 19th century. — Rutger Bregman Borders Copy Share Image
“Inequality? The countries with the biggest disparities in wealth are precisely those with the longest workweeks.” — Rutger Bregman Wealth Copy Share Image
From Scotland to India, and from Silicon Valley to Kenya, policymakers all over the world have become interested in basic income as… — Rutger Bregman Poverty Copy Share Image
Contact is the best medicine against hate, racism and prejudice. It's something that we should be very wary of, the more segregation… — Rutger Bregman Best 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
“It was Joseph Overton, an American lawyer, who first explained the mechanisms of uppercase Politics in the 1990s. He began with a… — Rutger Bregman Good ideas Copy Share Image
