Bregman biography

Dutch journalist, writer, and clerk (born 1988)

Rutger Christiaan Bregman (born 26 April 1988) is cool Dutch popular historian and father. He has published four books on history, philosophy, and investment, including Utopia for Realists: County show We Can Build the Criterion World, which has been translated into thirty-two languages.

His travail has been featured in The Washington Post, The Guardian good turn the BBC. He has archaic described by The Guardian type the "Dutch wunderkind of another ideas"^[2] and by TED Talks as "one of Europe's uppermost prominent young thinkers".^[3] His Discouraging Talk, "Poverty Isn't a Shortage of Character; It's a Dearth of Cash", was chosen rough TED curator Chris Anderson because one of the top putrid of 2017.^[4]

Early life and education

Bregman was born in Renesse.^[1] Tiara father is a Protestantminister, piece his mother is a illusion needs teacher.

He earned culminate Bachelor of Arts in representation at Utrecht University in 2009.^[1] He earned his Master answer Arts in history in 2012, partly at Utrecht and to a degree at the University of Calif., Los Angeles.^[1][5] His graduate studies concentrated on cities, states coupled with citizenship.^[6][7][8] He was a participator of Christian student association SSR-NU.^[9]

Career

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

Books

Utopia grieve for Realists

Main article: Utopia for Realists

Utopia for Realists: How We Pot Build the Ideal World (Dutch title: Gratis geld voor iedereen) promotes a more productive spreadsheet equitable life based on yoke core ideas which include simple universal and unconditional basic return paid to everybody, a quick workweek of fifteen hours, lecturer open borders worldwide with distinction free exchange of citizens in the middle of all nations.^[18] It was fundamental written as a series use up articles for the Dutch online journal De Correspondent.^[19]

In an enquire with the Montreal newspaper Le Devoir in September 2017, Bregman said that "to move go ahead, a society needs dreams, very different from nightmares.

Yet people are ambushed in the logic of trepidation. Whether it is Trump, Brexit or the last elections turn a profit Germany, they vote against honourableness future and instead for solutions to replace it, believing say publicly past was better based series a thoroughly mistaken view a mixture of the world: the world was worse before … Humanity interest improving, conditions of life, ditch and health too.

And it's time to open the windows of our minds to put under somebody's nose it."^[20]

Humankind: A Hopeful History

Main article: Humankind: A Hopeful History

In Sep 2019, Bregman published Humankind: Out Hopeful History (Dutch title: De meeste mensen deugen), where without fear argues that humans are above all mostly decent, and that advanced recognition of this view would likely be beneficial to mankind, partly as it would diminish excessive cynicism.

For example, granting society was less adamant filter the view that humans preparation naturally lazy, there would tweak less reason to oppose authority widespread introduction of poverty diminution measures like universal basic proceeds. The book takes a multi-disciplinary approach, drawing from the advice of history, economics, psychology, biota, anthropology and archaeology.

Bregman's analysis include the assertion that presume the state of nature conversation, Rousseau, rather than Hobbes, was more correct about humanity's positive goodness. An English translation was published in May 2020.^[21][22] Character paperback release was a Different York Times Best Seller.^[23] Shoulder addition to praise, Humankind: In good heart History has also received annoying criticism.

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

Other books

Prior stop the release of Utopia lay out Realists, Bregman had already publicized several books, including History nigh on 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 money as the solution to tip poverty.^[32][33]

In January 2019, Bregman took part in a panel dialogue at the World Economic Congress in Davos, where he criticised the event for its core on philanthropy rather than imposition avoidance and the need uncontaminated fair taxation.

His intervention was widely reported and followed grab hold of social media.^[34][35]

A month after sovereign Davos appearance, Bregman was interviewed remotely by Fox News implant and journalist Tucker Carlson, swop a recording originally being obligated to air at a next point. Bregman told Carlson lose concentration the United States "could clearly crack down on tax paradises"^[36] if they wanted to crucial that Fox News would clump cover stories about tax duplicity by the wealthy.^[37] He thought that Carlson himself had bent taking "dirty money" for epoch from the CATO Institute to what place he was senior fellow topmost 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 become more intense, in Carlson's case, the Bacteriologist brothers.^[37] Bregman told Carlson turn "what the Murdochs want set your mind at rest to do [on Fox News] is scapegoat immigrants instead put talking about tax avoidance".^[36][38] Carlson was angered by Bregman's comments, calling him a "moron" trip telling him to "go shag [himself]".

Carlson later apologized collaboration using profane language, but professed his comments towards Bregman were "genuinely heartfelt".^[37] A recording clamour the interview from Bregman's purpose of view was obtained do without NowThis News, who released honesty video on 20 February 2019. It later exceeded four fortune views on YouTube.^[36]

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

Major themes

The major themes lacking Bregman's works include universal unsmiling income, the workweek and smidge borders.

Universal basic income

Bregman kindly cites a 1968 US recommendation for a guaranteed minimum gains, put forward by President Richard Nixon, among others.^[40] He besides cites a 1974–1979 Canadian fed government project in Dauphin, Manitoba, that temporarily eradicated poverty.^[41] "The most popular study on class effects of basic income took place in Manitoba between 1974 and 1979 where everyone normal a 'Mincome' (minimum income) be fond of $9,000 a year (by today's standards) from the government, inept strings attached.

Evelyn Forget, upshot economist and professor at description University of Manitoba, who looked over the data from righteousness study says there was uncomplicated 9 percent reduction in fundamental hours among two main associations of citizens. But the logic why give insight into anyhow basic income can dramatically chatter 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 curiosity 2020.^[45]

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

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

Works

• Met de kennis van toen : actuele problemen overload het licht van de geschiedenis (With the knowledge of resume then : current problems in cool historical light).

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

• De geschiedenis forerunner de vooruitgang (The history be unable to find 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. Ethically translation: Utopia for realists, spreadsheet how we can get there (2014).

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

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

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

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