Rutger Bregman

And it understands that, as Voltaire put it, the perfect is the enemy of the good.

To give a few examples: Why have we been working harder and harder since the 1980s despite being richer than ever? Why are millions of people still living in poverty when we are more than rich enough to put an end to it once and for all? And why is more than 60% of your income dependent on the country where you just happen to have been born?

Optimism and pessimism have become synonymous with consumer confidence or the lack thereof