Viral Sensation Rutger Bregman On How Utopian Ideas Can Become Reality

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🗓️ 5 April 2019

⏱️ 48 minutes

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This week's episode features Rutger Bregman, historian and author of Utopia for Realists: And How We Can Get There. In conversation with Helen Lewis, associate editor of the New Statesman, he discusses subjects ranging from Universal Basic Income, the benefits of the four-day working week, climate change, and his solutions for saving capitalism - plus his recent speech at Davos calling for higher taxes for the rich, a video of which went viral. Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/intelligencesquared. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:04.8	This week's episode features the Dutch historian and political scientist Rutgerman, in conversation
1:09.7	with the new statesman's Hen and Lewis.
1:12.1	You might recognize Rutger from a speech he did at Davos
1:14.6	which recently went viral where he called for higher taxes on the rich. In this
1:18.8	podcast they discuss climate change, universal basic income and Rutka's Solutions for How to Save Capitalism.
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