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Rutger Bregman

출생: April 26, 1988 – Renesse, Zeeland, Netherlands

Rutger Bregman is a Dutch historian and writer focused on history, economics, politics, and human nature. He is best known for Utopia for Realists and Humankind, books that helped popularize debates on universal basic income, open borders, and cooperation, and became international bestsellers translated into dozens of languages.

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Rutger Bregman is a Dutch historian and writer whose career has been shaped by a mix of moral seriousness and public argument. Born in 1988 in Renesse, in the Netherlands, he grew up as the son of a pastor and a special-needs teacher, an upbringing that helps explain the ethical register of much of his work. He studied history at Utrecht University and at UCLA, and for a time expected to become an academic historian. Instead, he moved into journalism, first at De Volkskrant and then for a decade at the independent digital platform De Correspondent, where he developed the essayistic style that would make him widely known: historically grounded, policy-minded, and written for a broad online readership. ((https://rutgerbregman.com/bio?utm_source=openai))

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Poverty isn’t a lack of character; it’s a lack of cash
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You become a good person by doing good things, and that can be infectious as well
-How you can do more for others
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Here’s the thing: awareness alone won’t help a soul
-No, you’re not fine just the way you are
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Government isn’t just there to administer life-support to failing markets. Without it, many would not even exist
-Look at the phone in your hand – you can thank the state for that
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A big part of the modern banking sector is essentially a giant tapeworm gorging on a sick body
-No, wealth isn’t created at the top. It is merely devoured there
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The question is not: can our kids handle the freedom? The question is: do we have the courage to give it to them?
-What if we give children the freedom to play and learn on their own?
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Our secret superpower is our friendliness and ability to cooperate
-Rutger Bregman: the Dutch historian who rocked Davos and unearthed the real Lord of the Flies
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Going viral isn’t the same as winning a majority
-No, you’re not fine just the way you are

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