"Productivity, respect and growth are. Are we having any all across post-development countries?"
Have any of you ever taken a basic Econ course?
'No room for growth'?
THE ECONOMY HAS BEEN GROWING EVERY YEAR.
Do you realize that 'feature phones' to 'cell phones' is economic growth?
Do you realize that '2G to 4G' is economic growth?
Do you realize that more people going to college than ever before is good?
There are new medicine trials every day - gene therapy. Jesus H Christ you can now chose the gender and eye colour of your offspring. That's how advanced we are.
100 years ago - there was no 'medicine'. 95% of all operations were basically amputations with crossed fingers of no infection.
Do you realize that the amount of air travel in the world has doubled in the last little while?
That you have access to 100000x more information that people just 20 years ago, before the internet?
You do realize that the iPhone/Android/Facebook are only 10 years old?
That 20 years ago there was no YCombinator?
I'm just going to assume that most of you are too young to have any perspective, because I just can't understand the commentary here.
When you hit your 30's, you can look back and your own life can be a literal testament to the change.
Yes, some things stay the same, but at least in terms of material productivity, things are better.