Utopia for Realists

How We Can Build the Ideal World

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Rutger Bregman, Elizabeth Manton, Rutger Bregman: Utopia for Realists (2017)

262 pages

English language

Published 2017

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978-0-316-47190-9
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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 2014 book by Dutch popular historian Rutger Bregman. 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. 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:

a universal basic income paid to everybody a short working week of fifteen hours open borders worldwide with the free movement of citizens between all states

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