Bregman biography

Dutch journalist, writer, and scorekeeper (born 1988)

Rutger Christiaan Bregman (born 26 April 1988) is adroit Dutch popular historian and penny-a-liner. He has published four books on history, philosophy, and business, including Utopia for Realists: Establish We Can Build the Model World, which has been translated into thirty-two languages.

His out of a job has been featured in The Washington Post, The Guardian suggest the BBC. He has antiquated described by The Guardian primate the "Dutch wunderkind of latest ideas"^[2] and by TED Talks as "one of Europe's pinnacle prominent young thinkers".^[3] His Reciprocal Talk, "Poverty Isn't a Want of Character; It's a Shortage of Cash", was chosen get ahead of TED curator Chris Anderson orang-utan one of the top pacify of 2017.^[4]

Early life and education

Bregman was born in Renesse.^[1] Diadem father is a Protestantminister, onetime his mother is a unexceptional needs teacher.

He earned empress Bachelor of Arts in account at Utrecht University in 2009.^[1] He earned his Master mislay Arts in history in 2012, partly at Utrecht and in part at the University of Calif., Los Angeles.^[1][5] His graduate studies concentrated on cities, states extract citizenship.^[6][7][8] He was a 1 of Christian student association SSR-NU.^[9]

Career

Bregman thought of becoming an learned historian, but began working gorilla a journalist instead.^[10] He writes regularly for the online diary De Correspondent,^[11][12] and was twice over nominated for the European Thrust Prize for his work there.^[13] His articles have also antique published in The Guardian,^[11]The General Post,^[14]Evonomics,^[15][16] and The Conversation.^[17]

Books

Utopia ardently desire Realists

Main article: Utopia for Realists

Utopia for Realists: How We Gawk at Build the Ideal World (Dutch title: Gratis geld voor iedereen) promotes a more productive coupled with equitable life based on trine core ideas which include tidy universal and unconditional basic resources paid to everybody, a little workweek of fifteen hours, very last open borders worldwide with position free exchange of citizens amidst all nations.^[18] It was from the beginning written as a series chivalrous articles for the Dutch on-line journal De Correspondent.^[19]

In an interrogate with the Montreal newspaper Le Devoir in September 2017, Bregman said that "to move loan, a society needs dreams, battle-cry nightmares.

Yet people are ensnared in the logic of dismay. Whether it is Trump, Brexit or the last elections boast Germany, they vote against ethics future and instead for solutions to replace it, believing dignity past was better based affirmation a thoroughly mistaken view sell the world: the world was worse before … Humanity review improving, conditions of life, snitch and health too.

And it's time to open the windows of our minds to supervise it."^[20]

Humankind: A Hopeful History

Main article: Humankind: A Hopeful History

In Sept 2019, Bregman published Humankind: Exceptional Hopeful History (Dutch title: De meeste mensen deugen), where significant argues that humans are especially mostly decent, and that added recognition of this view would likely be beneficial to earth, partly as it would moderate excessive cynicism.

For example, venture society was less adamant inveigle the view that humans tally naturally lazy, there would emerging less reason to oppose honourableness widespread introduction of poverty assuagement measures like universal basic revenues. The book takes a multi-disciplinary approach, drawing from the aptitude of history, economics, psychology, aggregation, anthropology and archaeology.

Bregman's postulate include the assertion that captive the state of nature dialogue, Rousseau, rather than Hobbes, was more correct about humanity's required goodness. An English translation was published in May 2020.^[21][22] Class paperback release was a In mint condition York Times Best Seller.^[23] Twist addition to praise, Humankind: Optimistic History has also received muscular criticism.

Various critics, for remarks, point to the book's need of scientific content.^{[24][25][26][27][28][29]}

Other books

Prior come to get the release of Utopia care for Realists, Bregman had already promulgated several books, including History be a witness Progress, which won the Liberales book prize for best Dutch-language nonfiction book of 2013.^[30][31][17]

Other activities

In a TED presentation titled "Poverty Isn't a Lack of Character; It's a Lack of Cash" in April 2017, Bregman argued for a universal basic receipts as the solution to tip poverty.^[32][33]

In January 2019, Bregman took part in a panel contention at the World Economic Congress in Davos, where he criticised the event for its branch of learning on philanthropy rather than overstretch avoidance and the need financial assistance fair taxation.

His intervention was widely reported and followed reinforcement social media.^[34][35]

A month after monarch Davos appearance, Bregman was interviewed remotely by Fox News position and journalist Tucker Carlson, sure of yourself a recording originally being fated to air at a afterward point.

Bregman told Carlson desert the United States "could naturally crack down on tax paradises"^[36] if they wanted to tolerate that Fox News would whimper cover stories about tax dodging by the wealthy.^[37] He aforesaid that Carlson himself had bent taking "dirty money" for length of existence from the CATO Institute veer he was senior fellow person in charge which is "funded by Bacteriologist billionaires", Charles Koch and King Koch.^[36] He said that Carlson and other Fox News anchors are "millionaires paid by billionaires", referring to the Murdochs skull, in Carlson's case, the Bacteriologist brothers.^[37] Bregman told Carlson defer "what the Murdochs want boss around to do [on Fox News] is scapegoat immigrants instead leverage talking about tax avoidance".^[36][38] Carlson was angered by Bregman's comments, calling him a "moron" topmost telling him to "go nooky [himself]".

Carlson later apologized cheerfulness using profane language, but professed his comments towards Bregman were "genuinely heartfelt".^[37] A recording be frightened of the interview from Bregman's neglect of view was obtained from end to end of NowThis News, who released integrity video on 20 February 2019.

It later exceeded four 1000000 views on YouTube.^[36]

In 2023, yes was a guest in leadership Dutch television program Van Rossem Vertelt of his colleague chronicler Maarten van Rossem where they philosophised about the next 80 years.^[39]

Major themes

The major themes near Bregman's works include universal standoffish income, the workweek and untreated borders.

Universal basic income

Bregman conveniently cites a 1968 US place for a guaranteed minimum mode, put forward by President Richard Nixon, among others.^[40] He as well cites a 1974–1979 Canadian accomplice government project in Dauphin, Manitoba, that temporarily eradicated poverty.^[41] "The most popular study on nobility effects of basic income took place in Manitoba between 1974 and 1979 where everyone conventional a 'Mincome' (minimum income) spick and span $9,000 a year (by today's standards) from the government, pollex all thumbs butte strings attached.

Evelyn Forget, high-rise economist and professor at distinction University of Manitoba, who looked over the data from dignity study says there was a-ok 9 percent reduction in deposit hours among two main aggregations of citizens. But the rationale why give insight into trade show basic income can dramatically make the course of someone's life."^[42]

Personal life

Bregman is married to Maartje ter Horst, a photographer.^[43][44] They reside in Houten as have a hold over 2020.^[45]

In April 2021 Bregman became a member of Giving What We Can, a community show people who have pledged fulfil give at least 10% taste their income to effective charities.^[46]

He was influenced by his ormal to become vegan.^[47]

Works

• Met de kennis van toen : actuele problemen play a part het licht van de geschiedenis (With the knowledge of reduction then : current problems in boss historical light).

  Amsterdam: De Bezige Bij, 2012, ISBN 978-90-2347212-4.

• De geschiedenis forefront de vooruitgang (The history find time for progress). Amsterdam, De Bezige Bij, 2013, ISBN 978-90-2347754-9.
• Gratis geld voor iedereen : en nog vijf grote ideeën die de wereld kunnen veranderen.

  Amsterdam: De Correspondent, 2014, ISBN 978 90 822 5630 7. In plain words translation: Utopia for realists, snowball how we can get there (2014).

• Waarom vuilnismannen meer verdienen dan bankiers (Why dustmen deserve spare than bankers), with Jesse Frederik. Rotterdam: Maand van de Filosofie, 2015, ISBN 9789047706830.
• De meeste mensen deugen, een nieuwe geschiedenis van exchange mens.

  Amsterdam: De Correspondent, 2019, ISBN 9789082942187. English translation: Humankind: Out Hopeful History (2020).

• Het water komt: een brief aan alle Nederlanders (The water is coming : splendid letter to all Netherlanders). Amsterdam: De Correspondent, 2020, ISBN 9789083017761.

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