Name: Poverty isn't a lack of character; it's a lack of cash
Uploaded: 2017-05-22T15:06:14Z
Duration: 14 min 48 s
Description: "Ideas can and do change the world," says historian Rutger Bregman, sharing his case for a provocative one: guaranteed basic income. Learn more about the idea's 500-year history and a forgotten modern experiment where it actually worked -- and imagine how much energy and talent we would unleash if we got rid of poverty once and for all.

"Ideas can and do change the world," says historian Rutger Bregman, sharing his case for a provocative one: guaranteed basic income. Learn more about the idea's 500-year history and a forgotten modern experiment where it actually worked -- and imagine how much energy and talent we would unleash if we got rid of poverty once and for all.

Rutger Bregman: Poverty isn't a lack of character; it's a lack of cash

Poverty isn't a lack of character; it's a lack of cash

*Utopia for Realists: How We Can Build the Ideal World*

"Living under scarcity"

economics

social change

work

society

money

policy

capitalism

resources

equality

TED Stage Talk