" Also in terms of health–maybe the greatest promise of the Land of Plenty–modern progress has trumped the wildest imaginings of our ancestors. Whereas wealthy countries have to content themselves with the weekly addition of another weekend to the average lifetime, Africa is gaining four days a week.11 Worldwide, life expectancy grew from sixty-four years in 1990 to seventy in 201212–more than double what it was in 1900. "

― Rutger Bregman , Utopia for Realists: How We Can Build the Ideal World