My hope is that the corona crisis will help bring us into a new age of cooperation and solidarity and a realization… — Rutger Bregman Age Copy Share Image
Around the year 2000, countries such as France, the Netherlands and the US were already five times as wealthy as in 1930.… — Rutger Bregman Boredom 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
Societies tend to presume that poor people are unable to handle money. If they had any, people reason, the poor and homeless… — Rutger Bregman Education 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
The first thing we should acknowledge is that poverty is hugely expensive. It varies from country to country, but most of the… — Rutger Bregman Country Copy Share Image
Literally every single sliver of technology that makes the iPhone a smartphone instead of a stupidphone - internet, GPS, touchscreen, battery, hard… — Rutger Bregman Government 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
A lot of journalists help us to better understand the world by zooming out and sometimes zooming in on a really important… — Rutger Bregman Better Copy Share Image
Our streets are very important for social cohesion, for feelings of safety, and we just surrendered all this to the car. But… — Rutger Bregman Car 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 Young adults Copy Share Image
“Before the invention of the GDP, economists were rarely quoted by the press, but in the years after World War II they… — Rutger Bregman Economics Copy Share Image
“Even so, I think historians have more to offer than perspective on our present woes. The foreign country we call the past… — Rutger Bregman Foreign country 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
