Progress or Change?

As a society are we progressing or just changing? The term progress indicates that there is betterment. But is there more happiness, love and hope and less suffering? I think that many could make the argument that there is more suffering and less care and compassion now than a hundred years ago. Are we better today than were were a fifty, a hundred or a thousand years ago? I guess that depends on how you define the term better.

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