By Rutger Bregman
ISBN-10: 9082520303
ISBN-13: 9789082520309
From a common easy source of revenue to a 15-hour workweek, from a global without boundary lines to a global with no poverty – it’s time to come back to utopian thinking.
Rutger Bregman takes us on a trip via background, past the normal left-right divides, as he introduces principles whose time has come. Utopia for Realists is a kind of infrequent books that takes you abruptly and demanding situations what you're thinking that you recognize. within the phrases of major social theorist Zygmunt Bauman, it really is “brilliant, actually enlightening, and eminently readable.” This unique Dutch bestseller sparked a countrywide move for uncomplicated source of revenue experiments that quickly made overseas headlines.
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But they do ask the right questions. This is a book for everyone living in the Land of Plenty. For everyone with a roof over their head, a reasonable salary, and the opportunity to make the most of life. Because it’s us, the happy campers in Cockaigne, who need some fresh perspectives. The time has come to imagine new utopias, to build them up from solid foundations and to begin cautiously experimenting. After all, history is not determined by machines, apps, and algorithms, nor is it predicted by trendwatchers.
Two centuries of stupendous progress This is a diagram that takes a moment to absorb. Each circle represents a country. The bigger the circle, the bigger the population. The bottom section shows countries in the year 1800; the top shows them in 2012. g. the Netherlands, the United States) still fell short of that in the country with the lowest health rating (Sierra Leone) in 2012. In other words: in 1800, all countries were poor in both wealth and health, whereas today, even sub-Saharan Africa outperforms the most affluent countries of 1800 (despite the fact that incomes in the Congo have hardly changed in the last 200 years).
With its endless reruns, several generations have now grown up with The Jetsons. Fifty years later, it turns out that many of the predictions its creators made about the year 2062 have already come true. A housekeeping robot? Check. Tanning beds? Been there. Touchscreens? Done that. Video chat? Natch. But in other respects, we’re still a long way off from Orbit City. When will those flying cars get off the ground? No sign of moving city sidewalks either. But the most disappointing fail? The rise of leisure.
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