I have learned that people find progress debatable, so I will just point to broad advances in life expectancy, child mortality, extreme poverty, literacy, educational attainment, real incomes, undernourishment, and access to clean water, sanitation, electricity, and healthcare and leave the rest as an exercise to the reader.
Equality is not a prerequisite for everyone to be better off (and please do note that this is not me saying I prefer inequality. That would be an entirely separate sentence.)
Equality is not a prerequisite for everyone to be better off (and please do note that this is not me saying I prefer inequality. That would be an entirely separate sentence.)