[cercatrova]

What annoys me even more is thinking that because the world is the best it has ever been that there are no more problems to solve and that we should be content. You may not believe this personally, but I see this argument a lot, especially from people like Steven Pinker, who then seem to avoid the issues laid out by the other child comment, like stagnating wages and corporate profit.

[malandrew]

Problems doesn't really exist. They are an abstraction that results from an individual analyzing what they perceive to be a mess. When someone proposes a problem, they really only reveal things about themselves and their thoughts than some "truth" about the nature of the world. There are no problems in nature. Without analysis and judgement, things just are.

You claiming that stagnating wages and corporate profit are problems is no more valid than a business owner/builder complaining about rising wages and dropping corporate profits. Both are equally valid depending on whose shoes you're in.

You can also be in either person's shoes and arrive at a different analysis and perceive different problems depending on who you are as a person and how you see the world.