12 July 2020
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Are violence and war intrinsic to human nature?
Robert Wright speaks with Rutger Bregman, author of the new book Humankind: A Hopeful History.
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In this video:
- Rutger’s new book, Humankind: A Hopeful History
- Debunking the “veneer theory” of human nature
- Are violence and war intrinsic to human nature?
- The human self-domestication thesis
- Why Bob doesn’t like the idea of people “deserving punishment”
- Is it bad to emphasize the dark side of human nature?
- What the debunking of the Stanford Prison Experiment can teach us
- Giving money to rich people: Why the U in UBI?
- Would UBI turn us all into couch potatoes (or worse)?
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