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Utopia for Realists: How We Can Build the Ideal World
As the mathematicians of Kroton knew two and a half millennia ago, utopian thinking is an essential ingredient of progress—whether unraveling the mysteries of the universe or ensuring that the burden of care work doesn’t always fall disproportionately on anyone’s shoulders. It’s time to let our imaginations run wild.
Kristen R. Ghodsee • Everyday Utopia: What 2,000 Years of Wild Experiments Can Teach Us About the Good Life
once there’s enough food on the table, a roof that doesn’t leak, and clean running water to drink, economic growth is no longer a guarantor of welfare.
Rutger Bregman • Utopia for Realists: How We Can Build the Ideal World
No economic or social policy can “brute force” a change in our hearts. But in choosing different policies, we can reward different behaviors and start to nudge our culture in different directions. We can choose a purely technocratic approach—one that sees each of us as a set of financial and material needs to be satisfied—and simply transfer enough
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