![]() Basically, governments could bring an end to poverty if they wanted to, for less than the cost of what some spend on arming themselves. Take the Universal basic income for example - instead of putting people through the welfare system, with its endless bureaucracy and loops for people to jump through, imagine if people had money given to them, to do with as they wish - people wouldn't have to endlessly worry about poverty and could devote themselves to bettering themselves, doing the job they wanted to, but contributing to society, and not trapped in the poverty cycle and the prison system, Of course there will be pitfalls - but the evidence presented by the author points to a fairer, productive society, for the betterment of all. Rutger Bregman does a brilliant job of taking what may seem to some as radical ideas - a universal basic income for all, a fifteen hour week and a world without borders - and presenting his arguments lucidly, with evidence to back them up. ![]() ‘Utopia for realists’ was a real eye opener for me. Some might say that the title of this book has an oxymoronic quality: can a realist believe that a Utopia is achievable By the end of the argument I remained. ![]()
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