I'm currently reading the book Moral Ambition by Rutger Bregman [1]. Chapter 7 begins by discussing how much better life is for humanity today than it was a few centuries ago. At the top of page 124 it reads: The share of the world's population that lives in extreme poverty has gone down nearly 90 percent, and the poor in wealthy countries now enjoy a higher standard of living than kings and emperors did a few centuries back. [2] Bregman sees this progress as proof that humanity can solve massive problems when it aims high. But while this is truly...