![]() “In the past,” he writes, simply, “everything was worse.” Then, a couple of hundred years ago, something happened: technological innovations allowed wealth and social welfare to spread, such that “a homeless person receiving public assistance today has more to spend than the average Dutch person in 1950, and four times more than people in Holland’s Golden Age.” Utopia, or nearly so-at least from the point of view of someone born as recently as in the times of Georgian England. ![]() A spirited and practical manifesto for improving the odds of making a heaven on Earth.ĭutch journalist and economist Bregman opens with an ennobling proposition. ![]()
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