Eye-opening! Even for someone with a liberal bent like myself, this book helped to clarify the arguments for a reduced workweek, basic income, and open borders. It helped me realize that, if you look at the facts these are actually really practical propositions. And, we almost had a basic income under a Republican president! We were "this" close.

Rutger's facts-based approach, with ample citations, firmly grounds his proposals. These aren't bleeding-heart tax-and-spend liberal shibboleths. These are pragmatic approaches to helping lift the world out of poverty, improve the human condition, and make everyone happier in their own lives.

He has convinced me to set sail for the next Utopia:

“A map of the world that does not include Utopia is not worth even glancing at, for it leaves out the one country at which Humanity is always landing. And when Humanity lands there, it looks out, and, seeing a better country, sets sail. Progress is the realisation of Utopias.” — Oscar Wilde