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RUTGER BREGMAN: Is it human nature to be good or evil? Exploring the evolution of the human race
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The dawn of civilisation is the moment from which we believe everything could only get better. In his latest book though, Rutger Bregman argues this might not be the case. Since then we've innovated war, extreme poverty, food and water inequality, and we've become so densly populated that we harbour and spread diseases across the globe. The catalyst, he argues, is that we assume the worst in others, which effects our behaviour towards them.
ABOUT RUTGER BREGMAN
Rutger Bregman is a popular historian and author who’s been described as the “Dutch wunderkind of new ideas”. He first went viral after scolding an auditorium of economists at the World Economic Forum in Davos, over tax evasion and it’s impact on global poverty. He has published four books on history, philosophy, and economics, including the international bestsellers, Utopia for Realists, and the topic of this episode’s discussion, Humankind: A Hopeful History.
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