Rutger Bregman and his dream of a utopia of a country

Photo: Maartje ter Horst
The historian and journalist Rutger Bregman

In 1973, the city of Dauphin, Manitoba, has become the laboratory of a social project unprecedented in Canada. Overnight, a universal basic income — it was $ 19,000 for a family of four — has been paid to the 13 000 inhabitants of the area, without consideration. The idea was to experiment in vivo this principle economic and social to give any money at all to get out of poverty those who need it the most.
For four years, the adventure has been successful at Dauphin, says the historian, Dutch Rutger […]

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