Rutger Bregman

3 weeks ago | theguardian.com | Hannah Moore |Rutger Bregman |Alex Atack |Tom Glasser |Homa Khaleeli |Elizabeth Cassin

“Moral ambition is the desire to stand on the right side of history before it is fashionable, to basically devote your career, your life, to some of the most pressing issues that we face as a species.”Rutger Bregman, historian and author of Moral Ambition, believes that too many of us are in what he calls “bullshit jobs”. “What I see is an enormous waste of talent,” he tells Hannah Moore.

1 month ago | smh.com.au | Rutger Bregman

, register or subscribe to save articles for later. Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. This story is part of the May 3 edition of Good Weekend.See all 14 stories. What will future generations see as our gravest offence? What practice of ours will most appal them? It’s not hard to come up with ideas: is it justifiable to spend billions on luxury items, when 45 million children under five worldwide are suffering from acute malnutrition?

1 month ago | watoday.com.au | Rutger Bregman

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1 month ago | theguardian.com | Rutger Bregman

Of all the things wasted in our throwaway times, the greatest is wasted talent. There are millions of people around the world who could help make the world a better place, but don’t. I’m talking about the ones who have got the power to shape their own careers, though you would never know it from their utterly unsurprising résumés. About the talented folks with the world at their feet who nonetheless get stuck in mind-numbing, pointless or just plain harmful jobs.

1 month ago | foyles.co.uk | Rutger Bregman

From the author of Humankind and Utopia for Realists—Moral Ambition takes Rutger Bregman's idiosyncratic ability to combine an optimistic vision of the world with practical and workable solutions to the next level. Equal parts inspiration and confrontation, Bregman asks: What are you doing to change the world? How can you help? What work can you do to make things better?