From one of Europe's leading young thinkers, a brief history of utopia and a pragmatic manifesto for how to improve the lives of the 99 percent today.

Sent to irus as a RABCK! Hope you enjoy it!

Got it today. Thank you again Jota-P.
Can't wait to start reading it.

I loved this book. It gave me insight of issues - like universal basic income - that I've heard about but had no much idea how it could work. With many historical examples (after all, this is not a brand new idea) and simple language, it draws a path to the future - a realistic one:

"Don't let anyone tell you what's what. It we want to change the world, we need to be unrealistic, unreasonable, and impossible. Remember: those who called for the abolition of slavery, for suffrage for women, and for same-sex marriage were also once branded lunatics. Until history proved them right."

Its going to travel for a while to Pequete's house.

It has been with me for a while, but I forgot to make a JE when I received it, sorry! I have meanwhile finished it and liked it. I had heard about universal income before and found it a bizarre idea, but Bregman provides information on several practical experiments that had me rethinking the whole thing. A shorter work week and changing the way we look at, and compensate different kinds of work are other ideas discussed in the book that already resonated with me before. The book includes a long list of references that can be looked up by those who want more details, although I found the outcome of some of the studies quite doubtful (in the Middle Ages people worked less than we do now - really? Only if cooking, gardening, washing and sewing are not accounted for as work...). Anyway, it was a goo read, with interesting information on real cases, and a hopeful message that each of us can take action to make the world a better place.
I will be returning it to irus as soon as we can arrange to meet.

Back home again.

Vai voltar a sair de casa, para viajar entre utópicos e realistas, cuja lista aqui se apresenta:

- Arvores
- Irus (regresso a casa)

Já está na ilha. Vou demorar um bocadinho a ler, cá por coisas. Mas creio que a senhora de trájusmontes não se vai zangar.
Obrigado

It's with me now. It will take me a while to read it, but I'll get there eventually :-)
Thanks for sharing!

After one year sitting and waiting to be read by me, this book will now travel back to its owner. Life always gets in the middle (or at least it has happened to me a lot, for the last 5 years or so). And I really have to make clever choices at this point.
Thank you for your patience.

Back home, it will be shared with other realists that dream with utopias.
Always available for anyone that wants to give it a try