A World to Win: Survival of the Friendliest w/ Rutger Bregman
Jacobin Radio
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4.7 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 12 November 2020
⏱️ 46 minutes
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Summary
On this week’s show Grace Blakeley speaks to Rutger Bregman, historian and author of Utopia for Realists and Humankind: A Hopeful History.
In January of last year, Bregman shot to international fame when video of him excoriating the tax-avoiding corporate elite at Davos went viral – and in the latest A World to Win he discusses a range of topics from human nature to capitalism and the 24-hour news cycle.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to a world to win a podcast from Tribune magazine. |
| 0:16.7 | I'm Grace Blakely bringing you your weekly dose of socialist news, theory and action |
| 0:21.3 | from around the world. This week I'm joined by Rutga Bregman, historian, |
| 0:26.2 | author of Utopia for Realists and Human Kind, and scourge of the Tax Avoiding Corporate |
| 0:31.3 | Elite at Davos. This week Rutga and I discuss some of the tax voiding corporate elite at Davos. This week Rooker and I discuss some of the issues |
| 0:35.2 | raised by his most recent and absolutely brilliant book, humankind, including whether human beings |
| 0:40.8 | are more cooperative or competitive by nature, how capitalism warps our behavior |
| 0:45.6 | and why you shouldn't watch the news. |
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