TLDR; Rutger Bregman is an author of a book called “Utopia for Realists”, he talks about his views to the interviewer from Gaurdian

• One way to check if you are in a bullshit job, try going on strike and see if the world falls apart.
• We do live in the present that is incredibly safer and better than the past.
• Moments of crisis are really important since that is when you would get new ideas into the bloodstream of thought.
• The bankers went on strike. disaster was predicted. Nothing happened.
• The problem with the left is that they very well know what they are against but they do not know what they are for.
• We keep buying stuff we don’t need, to impress people we don’t like.
• Poverty results in poor decisions.
  • The reason is not because poor people are wretched and their poverty is the reason for their IQ.
  • It is their circumstance which gives them a tunnel vision.
  • We need to pull the poor out of this tunnel vision, to unleash the ambition and passion.
• One of the biggest forms of discrimination is borders. But a world without borders is a Utopian idea.