The Key to Utopia

The Brian Lehrer Show | Mar 28, 2017

Rutger Bregman, a journalist and the author of Utopia for Realists: How We Can Build the Ideal World (Little, Brown and Company 2017), discusses how we can get to a world where we there is a universal basic income, a 15-hour work week, and open borders for everyone.

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