Things have been getting better steadily.

But things will never be perfect.

Only personal perfects

We can’t all have it good

Well we could but it won’t be perfect

Also @Timcast if you think that what we've been doing for the past 100+ years has been working really well and that it shouldn't be radically altered, welcome to conservatism.

And we’d probably all be starving

even those cant be reality,

Perfection is an inspiration, not a goal

Successful civilizations are really, really hard to build and really, really easy to destroy. Therefore anyone advocating extreme, radical divergence from what has been demonstrated to be successful should be viewed with extreme skepticism.

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https://twitter.com/NorthantsPolice/status/1044141939153661952?s=19

gotta loisence for that knife

...

I'm not a conservative by any means, if something is genuinely better i'm all for it,

But "progress for the sake of progress", or in current year terms "I want to feel good helping people i consider lessers" Is not a good guidebook on improving society

Shit, I got a ton of knives. ..

not like i collect them or anything either, but...

jail

no loisence no knife

only jail

If government cant keep track of how many illegals there are in my country,

I should not be expected to keep track of how many knives are in my house

nah, i live in USA, they'll kill me when they come for my guns.

with their guns

lol then your good

Ya, not entirely sure I agree with people's idea of progress anyway.

progress is when you ALL benefit from it, not just one group

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For what time?

for as long as you can keep that society going

i guess? 😛

'Progressive' is a poorly thought out marketing campaign that gained its own life and got away from its creators.
Progress implies movement. Movement away from something and movement towards something. If it's away from something, that something must have already been in existence - probably for a long time. If it's towards something, that something doesn't exist and may not even be real. How will you know when you reach it? What happens to the movement when you do?

It's perpetual revolution that must continually find things to revolt against in order to justify existing.

Progress is going from "Welp i have a splinter in me, guess i'll die" to "aww yiss, i can afford antibiotics and stay alive" 😛

I guess if your goal is to not die and you can afford the means to stay alive...

That's a pretty simple goal these days, if you believe the above charts.

In western nations our poor die of obesity related diseases far, far, far more than starvation.

Not dying is a simple goal?

Hmm...

Yes there are homeless people who die of exposure but that's usually due to substance abuse and not seeking shelter.

Oh, you mean to certain things

well my example is a bit random and oddly specific,

But the idea of "progress" as a society, would mean something that everyone benefits from,

You can't fix inequality, but you can progress society so that the bottom is still going great,
No one would be against helping the bottom up,

The issue is that people want to help the bottom up, by dragging the top down

And then its no longer progress for all

```I can afford antibiotics```
Yeah that's not gonna be a thing for much longer lol

well, you can still afford them, they just stop having use 😛