Rutger Bregman represents a new class of young thinkers who seek practical answers to real problems
Every time we see a newspaper headline or a viral video about horrendous human behaviour, it reiterates our notions about the human potential to harm others, and choose aggression over reconciliation.
Bergman disagrees. Strongly.
Rutger Bergman, a historian and a leading European thinker, is asking rhetorical questions. Are humans essentially good or bad? Should governments give out money to the poor without any national contribution (basic universal income)? Why is universal healthcare a solution to many of our problems? Both his bestsellers,
Utopia for Realists and