Another factor is that in the industrial countries the benefits of progress find expression not in lower prices but in higher wages.
For those of us not in a position to pay nearly $20,000 for a first edition of "The Big Sleep" or $12,500 for Ken Kesey's "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest," perhaps this is the pleasure missed most, a sad trade-off against the benefits of progress, convenience and predictable pricing -- the social and literary ambience of the average workaday used-book stores.
"We will act," the leaders declared, "to restore confidence in the fairness and effectiveness of our international tax rules and practices, and to ensure that each country is able to collect taxes owing and that developing countries are also able to secure the benefits of progress made on this agenda".
Take away the tech speak and we are back to the challenge the great 19th-century reformers, such as Theresa May's icon, the eclectic reformer Joseph Chamberlain, faced: how to bring the benefits of progress to those most in need of it, without seeking to inhibit advancement.
Instead, Mr. Wenger argued, "Our biggest remaining problems, however, require social innovation: how to distribute the benefits of progress more widely, how to live in better harmony with the environment and how to provide affordable access to education and healthcare for all".
The so-called Wobblies recognized that fewer hours would make sure workers reap the benefits of progress rather than let them trickle upward.
The film contrasted rural and urban views on the dignity of labor, addressing themes of gender equality and the benefits of progress, by means of a stranger's sojourn in a remote Kurdish village.
Still, millions of adolescent girls in the developing world remain out of secondary school, effectively excluded from the benefits of progress towards the MDGs.
Progress for Children: A report card on adolescents highlights other alarming consequences of the benefits of progress not being equally shared among the total of 1.2 billion adolescents – defined by the United Nations as between the ages of 10 and 19 – now living in all the regions of the world.
One important benefit of this progress is that our life expectancy is nowadays significantly higher than it would have been even some few decades ago.
