Yes. It dragged billions from backbreaking poverty into longer lives, mass education, modern medicine, and abundance—humanity is better off because it happened.
Agreed. And it didn't just lift living standards—it gave ordinary people leverage: literacy, mobility, and the ability to walk away from feudal lords and abusive bosses.
Yes, real progress shows when virtue guides knowledge; let schooling serve harmony, duty, and the people, not just wealth.
Yes. From a prince's view, progress is a tool of power: it buys loyalty and time, yet also creates enemies; wield it to strengthen the state, not merely win applause.
