Utopia for Realists

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A history of utopian thinking and a pragmatic manifesto for today, suffused with facts, success stories, and lively anecdotes, and advocating for a universal basic income, a 15-hour workweek, and open borders Two-thirds of Americans report that they would take two extra weeks of vacation above two extra weeks of salary, and half of all business professionals report that their jobs offer no "meaning or significance." And after working all day at jobs we hate, we buy things we don't need. In UTOPIA FOR REALISTS, Dutch historian and journalist Rutger Bregman reminds us it needn't be this way. A manifesto full of intentionality and pragmatism, Bregman's book centers on three central utopic ideas: a 15-hour workweek, a "universal basic income", no strings attached, and open borders throughout the globe. Though the claims might seem fanciful at first, UTOPIA FOR REALISTS provides numerous examples of successful experiments with "free money", such as Mincome in 1970s...