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So now because there all these different things that scientists do, the philosopher Paul Feyerabend famously said, "The only principle in science that doesn't inhibit progress is: anything goes."

That proves that this species of humanity is capable of achieving extraordinary progress if it really acts together and it really tries hard.

All of the grand challenges that we face today, like climate change and human rights and demographics and terrorism and pandemics and narco-trafficking and human slavery and species loss, I could go on, we're not making an awful lot of progress against an awful lot of those challenges.

Now, together with this, we also have a belief in endless progress.

We live in an era in which there's profound medical progress on so many other fronts.

And today, it's increasingly possible to make progress on a scale that was never possible before.

People are contributing to genetic studies in record numbers, and scientists around the world are sharing the data with one another to speed progress.

We are going to have a treaty with half of the world GDP around the table with the U.S. and the European Union, so if half of the world GDP is not enough to make progress on financial transparency and minimal tax for multinational corporate profits, what does it take?

I think we can make progress if we have a more pragmatic approach to these questions and we have the proper sanctions on those who benefit from financial opacity.

But progress in biotech is not only being accelerated, it is also being democratized.

Just as personal computers or the Internet or smartphones leveled the playing field for entrepreneurship, politics or education, recent advances have leveled it up for biotech progress as well, and that is allowing multidisciplinary teams like ours to try to tackle and look at these problems with new approaches.

So while we're making sweeping progress in human health, in technology, in education and design, we are doing dangerously little to help the victims and we are doing far too little to stop and prevent the wars that are driving them from their homes.

So what struck us was that these were communities that the people who lived there had built with their own hands, without a master plan and like a giant work in progress.

It counts bombs and prisons as progress.

So here we are, what I've done here is put on the vertical axis social progress.

So the country in the world with the highest social progress, the number one country on social progress is New Zealand.

The country with the least social progress, I'm sorry to say, is Chad.

Here's the United States — considerably richer than New Zealand, but with a lower level of social progress.

And then here's Senegal — it's got a higher level of social progress than Chad, but the same level of GDP.

Tucked away on the right-hand side, you will see a dot of a country with a lot of GDP but not a huge amount of social progress — that's Kuwait.

Just above Brazil is a social progress superpower — that's Costa Rica.

It's got a level of social progress the same as some Western European countries, with a much lower GDP.

So this shows the average relationship between GDP and social progress.

At every level of GDP per capita, there are opportunities for more social progress, risks of less.

So what this tells us is that if poor countries can get a little bit of extra GDP, and if they reinvest that in doctors, nurses, water supplies, sanitation, etc., there's a lot of social progress bang for your GDP buck.

Each extra dollar of GDP is buying less and less social progress.

Here's Brazil: social progress of about 70 out of 100, GDP per capita about 14,000 dollars a year.

Brazil is doing a reasonably good job of turning GDP into social progress.

It's less than half a plan, because where does Brazil want to go on social progress?

Brazil, it's possible to increase your growth, increase your GDP, while stagnating or going backwards on social progress.

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