Rutger Bregman (born 1988) is a historian. He has published six books: With the Knowledge of the Past (2012), The History of Progress (2013), Free Money for Everyone (2014), Why Garbage Collectors Earn More Than Bankers (with Jesse Frederik, 2015), Most People Are Good (2019), and Moral Ambition (2024).
It started as a dream. Imagine: a plane crashes on a deserted island in the Pacific Ocean. The survivors are about twenty British schoolboys, aged between six and twelve. They
