Rutger Bregman ✓

@rutgerbregman · New York · joined 09 Oct 2010

Historian. Books: 'Utopia for Realists' (2014), 'Humankind' (2020) and 'Moral Ambition' (2025). Co-founder of The School for Moral Ambition.

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372.7KViews on collected posts

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Rutger Bregman ✓@rutgerbregman20 Sep

@rutgerbregman With current institutional structure, this provides funding for California. At the macro level, it's an inflationary race to the bottom. Unspent billionaire income facilitates federal deficit spending that would otherwise drive up prices. 2.2K views · 21 likes · 4 reposts · 4 replies Open on X →

Rutger Bregman ✓@rutgerbregman20 Sep

@rutgerbregman Sure, let’s give the government more money to mismanage. You can’t tax your way into prosperity - eventually, the money runs out. I’d bet most billionaires wouldn’t mind giving a very large portion of their wealth away if they were sure it was used effectively and 768 views · 15 likes · 0 reposts · 7 replies Open on X →

Rutger Bregman ✓@rutgerbregman19 Sep

@rutgerbregman "Oligarch" seems like an odd word here. Oligarchy means rule by a small group. It does not simply mean "a billionaire whose political spending I dislike." 2.5K views · 29 likes · 1 reposts · 6 replies Open on X →

Rutger Bregman ✓@rutgerbregman19 Sep

Really great to see this: six Nobel Prize-winning economists (Duflo, Krugman, Diamond, Banerjee, Acemoglu and Stiglitz) just came out in favor of the California billionaire tax. You don't have to be a radical leftist to see why it's a good idea. First, look at the numbers: ten h

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Rutger Bregman ✓@rutgerbregman18 Sep

@rutgerbregman @RoryStewartUK Wow a paper says so? That totally changes my opinion that’s based on lived and observed reality! https://t.co/Hps2Tt3090

GIF

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Rutger Bregman ✓@rutgerbregman18 Sep

Ed Zitron asking a luddite why he doesn't just smash the machine. 29.6K views · 98 likes · 2 reposts · 8 replies Open on X →

Rutger Bregman ✓@rutgerbregman17 Sep

The paper: https://t.co/Kbij1vQpbm 4.3K views · 21 likes · 1 reposts · 0 replies Open on X →

Rutger Bregman ✓@rutgerbregman17 Sep

Remember JD Vance on the left? "They seem to hate the citizens of their own country and care more about people outside their own borders." "Just google ordo amoris," he told @RoryStewartUK. Well, google this new PNAS study: 743,402 people across 121 societies. Conclusion: ht

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Rutger Bregman ✓@rutgerbregman17 Sep

The AI backlash is fast becoming the 21st-century version of the temperance movement: massive, bipartisan, hugely powerful. Here's what I said last year in my final BBC Reith Lecture, before the AI revolt went mainstream: –– In my previous lectures, I spoke about two moral htt

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Rutger Bregman ✓@rutgerbregman16 Sep

My god, I wish we had more 'weird' and 'anti-human' people who understand that factory farming is one of the greatest moral atrocities of our time. And who devote their careers to ending it (knowing that, like many abolitionists, they'll probably be dead before it's done.) 20.5K views · 633 likes · 47 reposts · 12 replies Open on X →

Rutger Bregman ✓@rutgerbregman2 Jan 2019

So this is Rupert Murdoch reading my book on universal basic income, the 15-hour workweek, and open borders around the globe. I'm sure he'll love it. https://t.co/OPxTBXHO5D https://t.co/pFFVrczgjz

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10 posts from the last 90 days, next to the 100K–1M follower range. shown far beyond its own audience, and the audience reacts.

Median views7 856this account5 983median for 100K–1M

Reach, %2.11%this account1.49%median for 100K–1M

Engagement, %1.69%this account0.93%median for 100K–1M

Metric	This account	Median for 100K–1M	Ratio
Median views per post	7 856	5 983	1.31×
Reach (views ÷ followers)	2.11%	1.49%	1.41×
Engagement rate	1.69%	0.93%	1.82×

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How the posts we collected actually performed: views and reaction rate post by post, what the audience did with them, and where the follower count goes.

Views per post

20.5K16 Sep

11.4K17 Sep

48.3K

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29.6K18 Sep

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253K19 Sep

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76820 Sep

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Engagement rate per post

3.40%16 Sep

1.84%17 Sep

1.54%

0.53%

0.36%18 Sep

6.01%

2.83%19 Sep

1.44%

2.99%20 Sep

1.35%

Reactions — likes, reposts, replies and quotes — divided by views. Median for 100K–1M accounts is 0.93%.

What the audience does

Likes65.9%6 495 in total

Reposts22.3%2 198 in total

Replies2.2%212 in total

Quotes1.3%126 in total

Bookmarks8.4%826 in total

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