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Sep 7, 2020 • 5 tweets • 3 min read • Read on X
NEWS! I'm so honoured to be guest editor of this week's The Big Issue, UK's wonderful street newspaper. Theme: CYNICISM IS OUT, HOPE IS IN. On the cover: exclusive illustration by the great @charliemackesy! /1 Image
We've got brilliant pieces by @helenlewis and @NesrineMalik on activism and social change. I've interviewed filmmaker Richard Curtis (Love Actually, About Time, etc) about his films, activism and how he's being radicalised by his kids. (Teaser: bigissue.com/latest/richard…) /2
Here's a short version of my own essay about the jaw-dropping generational shift we're seeing right now. If you were young in the 1990s, it was avant-garde to be cynical and nihilistic. Nowadays, activism is the new realism.
bigissue.com/latest/rutger-… /3
Of course we have a piece on the power of universal basic income, or in this case: giving cash to homeless people. An interview with Claire Williams, who's doing an extraordinary experiment in Vancouver with giving money to rough sleepers. /4
Long story short: buy as many copies as you can for everyone you know. Buy from one of the 2,000+ street vendors for just £3, or subscribe, or buy it (if you're not in the UK) in the Big Issue App - you don't want to miss this :)
bigissue.com/magazines/rutg… /5 [the end]

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Apr 19
No, you're not fine just the way you are.

The first excerpt from my new book MORAL AMBITION is published today in The Guardian!

Of all the things we waste in this throwaway world, the greatest is wasted talent. I wrote Moral Ambition for the millions of talented people stuck in not-very-impactful jobs.

For the dreamers who’ve settled. For the idealists who gave up. For those who want to make their one life count.

You’ve only got about 2,000 workweeks in your career. How you spend that time is one of the most important moral decisions of your life. You can spend those hours making people click ads, writing reports nobody reads, or managing people who don’t need managing.

Or… you can do something that really matters.

That’s the core idea of Moral Ambition: using your talent to take on the biggest challenges of our time—climate change, corruption, inequality, future pandemics. To make the world a wildly better place.Image
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Most of us fall into one of three categories:

1) Not that ambitious, not that idealistic

2) Ambitious, but not idealistic

3) Idealistic, but not ambitious

What we need is a fourth kind of person. Image
Let’s talk about Category I first. About 8% of employees believe their own job is socially meaningless. Another 17% aren’t sure it adds value.

The late David Graeber had a highly technical term for this: bullshit jobs. We're talking about millions of jobs, mostly in the private sector.Image
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Jan 20
It’s that time of year again—the World Economic Forum in Davos kicks off today. Once again, global elites will gather to discuss everything, except their own tax avoidance and evasion.

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2019 was the one and only time I attended the conference. For some reason, they never invited me back.

Was it something I said…? 🤔 /2
Ever since attending Davos, I've been thinking about what we can do to make the rich pay their fair share. Today I want to share an idea + ask for your support. /3 Image
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Dec 14, 2024
How Americans responded in 1955 when the invention of the polio vaccine was announced. Image
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(From my forthcoming book)

Oh and this is what happened next:

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I know we're supposed to treat vaccine skeptics with a lot of empathy, compassion and understanding... but it's hard to wrap your head around the total stupidity of this: Image
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Nov 6, 2024
When Trump won in 2016, we devoted countless hours to analyzing the chasm between our values and those of vast swathes of America. If only we'd 'listen' and feel 'empathy' for Trump voters, we might find a path to heal the world.

Can we please not do that again?
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Can we please look in the mirror instead?

Because here’s the thing: playtime is over. Autocracy and fascism (yes, that’s what it’s called) are on the rise around the world. This is not a Disney movie. These are f*cking serious times. /2 Image
So to all those privileged white-collar folks who are shocked by the outcome of this election – go and DO something. No, you're not fine the way you are. It's all hands on deck, and many of you are wasting your time and talents in well-paid but socially useless jobs.  /3
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Nov 4, 2024
🥁🥁🥁 ... and here it is!! After three years of work, my new book is now available for pre-order! I’m so, so excited about it. Because this time it's not just a book, but also a movement we’re launching – and everyone is invited to join. Image
Moral ambition is the combination of two things: the idealism of an activist and the ambition of an entrepreneur. It’s about devoting your career to the greatest challenges of our time, and making the world a wildly better place.

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In the book, I study the lives of the great pioneers who came before us: the abolitionists and the suffragettes, the Jonas Salks and the Katharine McCormicks. And I write about the builders, the problem-solvers, and the doers who lead the way today. Image
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Aug 27, 2024
Powerful piece, with some uncomfortable observations.

'... proponents of income redistribution were less likely to give blood. “If everyone in the population gave at the same rate as government aid advocates, the supply would drop by about 30 percent."'

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During the 2010s, many progressives and leftists came to believe that improving the world does *not* start with the individual. Instead, we should strive for ‘systemic change’. /2
'In many ways, the growing emphasis on collective action felt clarifying, righteous, and long overdue',
@rmc031 writes...

... but were there downsides as well? /3
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