His recommendations for reforms such as universal basic income and shorter workweeks are persuasively argued and presented in a wonderfully accessible prose. While I very much sympathise with Bregman’s championing of basic income, I would thus argue that he champions it for the wrong reasons. Based on assessments of several historical and recent experiments, Bregman convincingly argues that basic income is an immensely good idea. All these social, medical, and psychological benefits derive from the large-scale cash handouts that are the essence of conventional notions of basic income. But additional advantages may materialise if basic income is combined with the idea of establishing a complementary currency.