Moral Ambition: Rutger Bregman on Purpose, Policy, and The Rich Roll Podcast
Update: 2025-12-19
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Feeling adrift? Historian Rutger Bregman argues the cure is 'moral ambition'—using your privilege and human capital to build something larger than yourself. This summary condenses a 2-hour Rich Roll conversation into 4 minutes, giving you the core ideas fast. Hosts Rich Roll and guest Rutger Bregman map how culture, incentives, and status shapes where talent goes—and how to rebrand prestige toward service, impact, and pragmatic coalition-building. You’ll learn why passion often follows engagement, how targeted fellowships and moral recruiting can pull talent out of consulting and finance, and practical reforms for food systems, philanthropy, and effective altruism. The episode touches on ethics of technology and AI alignment, philosophy of mind and consciousness, society and culture, and strategies familiar to startups and changemakers. Expect concrete takeaways: join a moral ambition circle, pursue measurable impact, and prioritize causes that are sizable, solvable, and neglected. Listen now to get the key ideas in minutes.
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