Rewarding roles

A good, honest, realistic and productive read is Utopia for Realists and it is well worth your time.

Here’s a quote to help encourage you to spend your reading time with it...

These days, however, the left seems to have forgotten the art of politics. Worse, many left-wing thinkers and politicians attempt to quell radical sentiments among their own rank and file in their terror of losing votes. This attitude is one I’ve begun to think of in recent years as the phenomenon of ‘underdog socialism’.

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The underdog socialist forgets that the real problem isn’t the national debt, but overextended households and businesses. He forgets that fighting poverty is an investment that pays off in spades. And he forgets that, all the while, the bankers and the lawyers are polishing turds at the expense of waste collectors and nurses.

Rutger Bregman Utopia for Realists