Yeah, that’s the thing about the current arrangement: all this material wealth and “progress” and yet we’re observing increasing numbers of the unhappy, depressed and aggrieved.

Men and women blaming each other for conditions that—not necessarily individually but as groups—are beyond their control.

As soon as societies become wealthy, couples have less children.

There’s one wealthy country that (for the time being at least) seems to reproduce: Israel. Yes, even the secular (though barely so). We’ll see how that develops.

> all this material wealth and “progress” and yet we’re observing increasing numbers of the unhappy, depressed and aggrieved.

I don't think anyone is denying the wealth gap increasing. both can be true when you remember that the 1% own 50% of the world's wealth.