Historian and author Rutger Bregman is calling for new thinking about the kind of world we want to live in.

Ideas like a basic income for everyone, with no strings attached. Free apartments for the homeless, fewer hours at work, and more job-sharing.

He quotes research which indicates how such schemes actually save governments money.

Rutger says that modern life has produced too many well-paid, worthless jobs that create little or no value, and induce a kind of despair in the people that have them.

Further information

Utopia for Realists - And How We Can Get There is published by Bloomsbury