Utopia for Realists: How We Can Build the Ideal World
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| Rating | : | 4.76 (547 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B01MXDBTWM |
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| Number of Pages | : | 440 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-07-28 |
| Language | : | English |
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dfenner said we are wealthier by a great margin than anyone has been in history. We are obviously in a trap. Many in the rich world are clearly dissatisfied with their lives, and they have no idea what to do about it. Yet by the measure of all previous generations we should be in paradise. As Bregman demonstrates, we are wealthier by a great margin than anyone has been in history.Bregman's answer to this dilemma is that we need use this wealth to buy ourselves more time a. Bill Gonch said About Time for a little Utopian Thinking. In stream of elections that never seem to end -- I just voted in an Australian election today -- I never cease to be disappointed by the true lack of choices on offer. Like most countries we have two major parties. One vows to disassemble the social compact quickly and one will take a slightly slower course. What I see is a lack of imagination of how the world might be better and how the worl. David Wineberg said Goals for the Left. Utopia For Realists is a Left manifesto. It explores three policies guaranteed to enrage right wingers: a guaranteed income, a shorter work week and open borders. Rutger Bregman does it with splendid panache. The book is a totally positive, upbeat read – most unusual for a defensive, defeatist Left. The studies and the facts are all there. Deny them at your peril, he seems to say.To app
Does it sound too good to be true? One of Europe's leading young thinkers shows how we can build an ideal world today.After working all day at jobs we often dislike, we buy things we don't need. From a Canadian city that once completely eradicated poverty, to Richard Nixon's near implementation of a basic income for millions of Americans, Bregman takes us on a journey through history, and beyond the traditional left-right divides, as he champions ideas whose time have come. His April 2017 talk continues to make the provocative case, detailing the idea's 500-year history and even its brief success in
Very seldom does a book change the way you think about some of most intractable problems of society, and of life. If we can get enough people to read this book, the world will start to become a better place."Richard Wilkinson, author of The Spirit Level: Why Greater Equality Makes Societies Stronger"Learning from history and from up-to-date social science can shatter crippling illusions. These are appealing notions, presented here in a breezy, TED talk-like style."Publishers Weekly"This book is brilliant. He has a big future shaping the future."Andrew Anthony, The Guardian UK"Rutger Bregman is part of a new generation of thinkers who are sugge