![]() ![]() Retrieved February 22, 2019.This book, by young Dutch historian Rutger Bregman, is a riot of forgotten stories (in 1970 US President Richard Nixon came within a hair's breadth of implementing a universal basic income) counterintuitive propositions ('The big reason people are poor is that they don't have enough money, and it shouldn't come as any surprise that giving them money is a great way to reduce that problem') and unlikely facts (someone on the poverty line in the US - or UK - is in the top 14% of the world's income bracket and thus part of the global elite). "Utopia for Realists: And How We Can Get There by Rutger Bregman – review". "Utopia for Realists by Rutger Bregman review: A brilliantly written and unorthodox page-turner". "Business will suffer if border crossings between European neighbours are shut". ![]() ^ "A Canadian City Once Eliminated Poverty And Nearly Everyone Forgot".^ "The decline in labor's share of corporate income since 2000 means $535 billion less for workers".^ Robotics and automation, employment, and aging Baby Boomers. ![]() ^ OECD:Trade Between Developed And Developing Countries': The Decade Ahead. ![]() ^ "World Economic Forum Growth Development Index 2017" (PDF)."Rutger Bregman: 'Basic income is all about the freedom to say no' ". Little, Brown and Company/Hachette Book Group USA. Utopia for Realists: How We Can Build the Ideal World. For that alone, this book is worth a read." See also Writing for The Observer, Will Hutton said, "You may not dream the same dreams as Bregman – but he invites you to take dreaming seriously. In her review for The Independent, Caroline Lucas described the book as a "brilliantly written and unorthodox page-turner." However, the new global system unfairly compensates a few rich countries, and, with the progressive substitution of human capital with automation and robotics, has also generated an increase in inequality, both between the investment community and its workforce within the G20 states as well as between developed countries and their developing neighbours.Įach idea is supported by multiple academic studies and anecdotal evidence including numerous success stories, quoting Richard Nixon's 1968 plan for a basic income for Americans, the Mincome project in the Canadian city of Dauphin, Manitoba, which "eliminated poverty" and reduced hospitalisation rates, and the perceived success of the Schengen Agreement. open borders worldwide with the free movement of citizens between all statesĪs a result of the advance of international trade and economic science in recent decades, globalization has radically transformed the traditional social and economic order from smaller, connected nations to a new world economy which, while already demonstrably capable of rescuing millions of people from poverty, could be extended to the entire human species.a universal and unconditional basic income paid to everybody.It offers a critical proposal that it claims is a practical approach to reconstructing modern society to promote a more productive and equitable life based on three core ideas: It was originally written as articles in Dutch for a virtual journal, De Correspondent, and was since compiled and published, and translated into several languages. Utopia for Realists: The Case for a Universal Basic Income, Open Borders, and a 15-hour Workweek (alternatively subtitled And How We Can Get There and How We Can Build the Ideal World) is a book by Dutch popular historian Rutger Bregman. ![]()
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