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🌅 HELIOX: Where Evidence Meets Empathy
We Already Live in Utopia. So Why Are We So Miserable?
Mar 10, 2026 • S6 E43 • 29:55

In 1820, 94% of humanity lived in extreme poverty. Today: under 10%. We doubled life expectancy. We eradicated smallpox.

We are statistically living in the medieval peasant's wildest dream.

And yet: burnout is epidemic. Depression is the leading cause of illness among teenagers. We are richer and more comfortable than any humans who ever lived — and somehow quietly drowning.

Mar 10 at 3:44pmWeb
Show threadZoomers of the Sunshine Coast 🇨🇦Mar 10

Historian Rutger Bregman's diagnosis: we've run out of dreams. And his three-pillar blueprint for a new utopia:

→ A 15-hour workweek (the economics have been there since Keynes, 1930)

→ Universal Basic Income (tested in Dauphin, Manitoba — extraordinary results, politically buried)

→ Open borders (the single biggest lever for global human flourishing)

The unreasonable ideas of today become the inevitable policies of tomorrow.

Show threadZoomers of the Sunshine Coast 🇨🇦Mar 10

Full episode + essay:

🎧 Listen: https://www.buzzsprout.com/2405788/episodes/18575742

📖 Read: https://helioxpodcast.substack.com/publish/post/189924027

📡 Available for Broadcast on PRX
https://exchange.prx.org/p/610431

PRX Series: The Possible World
https://exchange.prx.org/series/60613-the-possible-world

Feb 27 • S6 E38 — The Good Wolf We Keep Starving

Mar 10 • S6 E43 — We Already Live in Utopia. So Why Are We So Miserable?

Mar 12 • S6 E44 — The Print Shop Rebels: Why History's Steering Wheel Isn't Out of Reach

We Already Live in Utopia. So Why Are We So Miserable? - Heliox: Where Evidence Meets Empathy 🇨🇦‬

📖 Read If your income was guaranteed — if you knew, as a fact, that you would not starve no matter what — what would you do?The unreasonable ideas of today become the inevitable policies of tomorrow. Every major milestone of civilization — de...

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Show threadZoomers of the Sunshine Coast 🇨🇦Mar 10

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