Leigh Martinuzzi

464: Rutger Bregman – Utopia for Realists. Ideas, Action, Progress – Building the Ideal World


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Rutger Bremgman is the author of Utopia for Realists: How We Can Build the Ideal World. He is a historian and writes on philosphy, economics and history. 

Encouraged by his father to ask the bigger questions of life, Rutger believes we have stopped this practice. Bigger questions about life and about what's wrong with society, the key issues lead to ideas and in action solutions that can progress humanity to a higher level of utopia. 

In this conversation we discuss the idea of a Universal basic income. A 15-hour workweek. Open borders. And more. It sounds too good to be true but as Rutger explains perhaps it's not. Rutger is a thought leader challenging the way we think about key issues and challenging us in how we can build an ideal world today.
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