This is The Guardian.
Today, why you should quit your corporate job and find your moral ambition.
Rutger Bregman is a provocateur.
When he was invited to speak at Davos,
the annual meeting of the world's wealthiest and most influential in 2019,
this is what he told the assembled billionaires.
I mean,
I hear people talk in the language of participation and justice and equality and transparency.
But then, I mean, almost no one raises the real issue of tax avoidance, right?
And of the rich just not paying their fair share.
I mean, it feels like I'm at a firefighters conference and no one's allowed to speak about water.
There was only one panel, actually.
And I stand by everything I said, and I'm very sad that I never got an invitation back.
That speech may have killed his chances of getting a free skiing holiday, but it made him famous.
The video went viral.
Unimaginable for a random Dutch historian to go...
You are a superstar.
Things went fine for the first few minutes and then Bregman launched into an attack on Fox News.
They didn't really like that, no. I called him a moron.
And suddenly everyone wanted to hear about this young Dutch historian's ideas for free migration and taxing the rich.