{"product_id":"utopia-for-realists-how-we-can-build-the-ideal-world-9780316471893","title":"Utopia for Realists: How We Can Build the Ideal World","description":"\u003cp\u003eUniversal basic income. A 15-hour workweek. Open borders. Does it sound too good to be true? One of Europes leading young thinkers shows how we can build an ideal world today.  \"A more politically radical Malcolm Gladwell.\" -- New York Times  After working all day at jobs we often dislike  we buy things we dont need. Rutger Bregman  a Dutch historian  reminds us it neednt be this way -- and in some places it isnt. Rutger Bregmans TED Talk about universal basic income seemed impossibly radical when he delivered it in 2014. A quarter of a million views later  the subject of that video is being seriously considered by leading economists and government leaders the world over. Its just one of the many utopian ideas that Bregman proves is possible today.  Utopia for Realists is one of those rare books that takes you by surprise and challenges what you think can happen. From a Canadian city that once completely eradicated poverty  to Richard Nixons near implementation of a basic income for millions of Americans  Bregman takes us on a journey through history  and beyond the traditional left-right divides  as he champions ideas whose time have come.  Every progressive milestone of civilization -- from the end of slavery to the beginning of democracy -- was once considered a utopian fantasy. Bregmans book  both challenging and bracing  demonstrates that new utopian ideas  like the elimination of poverty and the creation of the fifteen-hour workweek  can become a reality in our lifetime. Being unrealistic and unreasonable can in fact make the impossible inevitable  and it is the only way to build the ideal world.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45646805631029,"sku":"ByrdShop_0316471895","price":24.13,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780316471893.jpg?v=1781678678","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/utopia-for-realists-how-we-can-build-the-ideal-world-9780316471893","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}