We give short shrift to arguments that people didn't know what they were doing when they made their choices. According to revealed preference , America is the most progressive country. So far as I know there is no other country that has more immigrants from America than America has immigrants from that country. By the way, many people move back and forth enough between America and the countries where they grew up so that the reasons for where they choose to live are based on a lot of information. Some people misunderstand the claim that there is progress and there will be more and people will like it with a claim that in the glorious future, everyone will be happy.
Nothing now known offers a way of making everyone happy.
Kings were often dissatisfied, and the very rich of today have their dissatisfactions. Revealed preference agrees pretty well with the common notions of progress. What Further Progress will People Want Human Expansion into Space Polemics . These are summaries of points with which I disagree and arguments against them. Here are some aspects of recent world material progress that we expect to continue.