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 Copy Share Image
It matters so much that from a very early age we encounter different kinds of different people, because that's what real life… — Rutger Bregman Age Copy Share Image
Even if you don't care about the environment whatsoever, solar panels are really cool, and are an investment because they save money… — Rutger Bregman Climate Copy Share Image
This is what a crisis does: It makes you question the status quo. That doesn't mean that after a crisis we move… — Rutger Bregman Change Copy Share Image
We'll all remember 2020 as an historic year. And for decades, people will be able to say, remember 2020. Remember when things… — Rutger Bregman Generation Copy Share Image
My aspiration was to write a book that you could still read in 10 years. That's hard. Then you start doubting every… — Rutger Bregman Book Copy Share Image
What the underdog socialist has forgotten is that the story of the left ought to be a narrative of hope and progress. — Rutger Bregman Hope 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
True innovation takes at least 10 to 15 years, whereas the longest that private venture capitalists are routinely willing to wait is… — Rutger Bregman Customer Copy Share Image
We know from scientific studies that infants as young as six months old can distinguish right from wrong and have a preference… — Rutger Bregman Copy Share Image
“Some scholarships are applied for by only 30% of those who qualify,” says Shafir, “despite the fact that study after study has… — Rutger Bregman Education 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 Copy Share Image
“President Nixon presented a bill providing for a modest basic income, calling it “the most significant piece of social legislation in our… — Rutger Bregman Baby boom Copy Share Image
“The correlation between ethnic background and crime, it turns out, is precisely zero. None, nothing, nada. Youth crime, the report stated, has… — Rutger Bregman Crime 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… — Rutger Bregman Copy Share Image
Since 1963, the University of Delaware's Disaster Research Center has conducted nearly 700 field studies on floods and earthquakes, and on-site research… — Rutger Bregman Calm Copy Share Image
“It empowers people,” one of the social workers said about the personalized budget. “It gives choices. I think it can make a… — 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… — Rutger Bregman Daily activities Copy Share Image
“Today, the richest 8% earn half of all the world’s income,24 and the richest 1% own more than half of all wealth.25… — Rutger Bregman Money Copy Share Image
Actually, it is precisely in overworked countries like Japan, England and the US that people watch an absurd amount of television. Up… — Rutger Bregman 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 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
I am part of a broad social movement. Ten years ago, it would have unimaginable for some random Dutch historian to go… — Rutger Bregman 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
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
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
“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
“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
Year after year, politicians have drafted huge piles of legislation on the assumption that most people are not good. And we know… — Rutger Bregman 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
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
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
Research suggests that someone who is constantly drawing on their creative abilities can, on average, be productive for no more than six… — Rutger Bregman 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
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
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
“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
