Bregman's answer to 'what should be done' is that changing the underlying view of human nature from selfish to fundamentally decent will have profound but unpredictable consequences; people will need to discover the implications themselves through lived experience, and the writer's role is to tell a different story that enables this shift.

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Rutger Bregman

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once you update your view of human nature... you can do things in a in a quite different way... as a writer I don't know sort of what all the effects will be

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Yuval Noah Harari & Rutger Bregman: YES Online ConversationsYuval Noah Harari
Created: 8/11/2026, 1:47:31 AM

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