Utopia for Realists: How We Can Build the Ideal World

by Rutger Bregman

Scarcity impinges on your mind. People behave differently when they perceive a thing to be scarce.

Capitalist or communist, it all boils down to a pointless distinction between two types of poor, and to a major misconception that we almost managed to dispel some forty years ago–the fallacy that a life without poverty is a privilege you have to work for, rather than a right we all deserve.