180 Quotes by Rutger Bregman

Productive women, seniors, or immigrants won’t displace men, young adults, or hardworking citizens from their jobs. In fact, they create more employment opportunities. A bigger workforce means more consumption, more demand, more jobs.

Researchers at Yale University have shown that educated people are more unshakable in their convictions than anybody.

Inequality? The countries with the biggest disparities in wealth are precisely those with the longest workweeks.

In the twenty-first century, the real elite are those born not in the right family or the right class but in the right country.

Greater flexibility in the workplace demands that we also create greater security. Globalization is.

Not coincidentally, the countries with the shortest workweeks also have the largest number of volunteers and the most social capital.

Fighting poverty has huge benefits that we have been blind to until now,” Shafir points out. In fact, he suggests, in addition to measuring our gross domestic product, maybe it’s time we also started considering our gross domestic mental bandwidth. Greater mental bandwidth equates to better child-rearing, better health, more productive employees – you name it. “Fighting scarcity could even reduce costs,” projects Shafir.

Civilisation has become synonymous with peace and progress, and wilderness with war and decline. In reality, for most of human existence, it was the other way around.

My hope is that the corona crisis will help bring us into a new age of cooperation and solidarity and a realization that we're in this together.