Progress is often slow, messy, and costly. It requires tremendous effort and resolve. But it’s worth it. It matters that we live lives our great-grand parents could only dream of; that a poor person in the first world enjoys better living conditions than bygone kings and emperors of the past. We will never reach an acceptable status quo, because there will always be more progress to be made and more problems to solve. But just because the horizon is unreachable doesn’t mean we shouldn’t push to get there. If it means a better life for our children and our children’s children, is it worth it? Will you accept the nature of progress and still fight for it?