Quality of life → Comprehensive human progress品质提升 → 推动人类生活品质和社会进步
From rising standards of living to a civilization where every human life is structurally fuller — the upgrade of the human dimension.从生活水准上升，到每一个人的生命在结构上更丰盛的文明——人类福祉维度的提升。
Raise the floor and broaden the middle of every dimension of human experience.在人类经验的每个维度，抬高地板、扩宽中间。
Translate accumulated technology into measurable gains in dignity, autonomy, and meaning for every human.把累积的技术，翻译为每个人的尊严、自主与意义上的可测量提升。
The arc这条弧
Quality of life is the most measurable horizon. Life expectancy, infant mortality, calories, literacy, mobility, time-not-spent-on-survival — every one of them has been tracked in fine detail for over a century. The numbers are clear: across every continent, every income bracket, every decade, the trend has been up. Not monotonically. Not without reversal. But up.
The future-vision in this table — "推动人类生活品质和社会进步" — adds social progress explicitly. The phrase quietly asserts that quality of life is not only individual. A society where most are well and a few are excluded is incomplete; the metric must include the distribution, not just the mean. Amartya Sen's "capabilities approach" makes the same point in academic clothing: development is the expansion of what people are able to do and be, measured across the whole population.
The horizon, then, is not just longer lives or richer diets. It is a civilization in which more and more of what humans actually want — meaning, agency, relationship, contribution, freedom from arbitrary cruelty — becomes the default rather than the luck of birth. That, not GDP, is the unit of comprehensive progress.
生活品质是这五条维度中最可量化的一条。人均寿命、婴儿死亡率、热量摄入、识字率、出行半径、不用于求生的时间——每一项都被精细记录了一个多世纪。数字很清楚：跨越每个大洲、每个收入档、每一个十年，趋势都是上行的。不是单调的，也并非没有逆转。但总体向上。
表格中的远景——"推动人类生活品质和社会进步"——加入了"社会进步"四字。这句话悄声主张：生活品质不只是个体的事。"多数人过得好、少数人被排除"的社会是不完整的；指标必须包含分布，而不只是平均值。阿马蒂亚·森的"能力进路"是它的学术版本：发展是人们能做、能成为之事的扩展，必须以全体人口为单位测量。
因此，远景并非只是更长的寿命或更丰盛的饮食，而是这样一个文明：人类真正想要的——意义、自主、关系、贡献、免于任意暴行——越来越多地成为默认，而非出身的运气。这才是综合进步的单位，而不是 GDP。
Metrics that mark progress标记进展的指标
- 01Healthy life expectancy at birth (target: 100 years by 2100)出生时的健康预期寿命（目标：2100 年前 100 岁）
- 02Share of population in extreme poverty (target: 0% by 2050)极端贫困人口占比（目标：2050 年前 0%）
- 03Gini coefficient of opportunity (not income) — target: below 0.2 by 2100机会基尼系数（非收入）——目标：2100 年前低于 0.2
- 04% of jobs experienced as meaningful (current global ~20%; target: > 60%)被体验为有意义的工作比例（全球现 ~20%；目标：> 60%）
What stands in the way阻力何在
- 01Hedonic adaptation: humans adapt to gains faster than they can value them.享乐适应：人类适应收益的速度，快于自身珍视它们的速度。
- 02Status competition: zero-sum positional goods cap the gains from productive goods.地位竞争：零和的位置性物品，会封顶生产性物品带来的收益。
- 03Meaning: rising material baselines do not automatically produce rising significance.意义：物质基线的上升，并不会自动带来意义的上升。
Thinkers on this arc此条弧上的思想者
Capabilities approach: development = expansion of what people are able to do and be.能力进路：发展 = 人们能做、能成为之事的扩展。
Showed empirically that the world is better than most educated people believe.经验证明：世界比多数受过教育的人所相信的要好。
Documented the long-run decline in violence and rise in flourishing.记录暴力的长期下降与繁荣的长期上升。
What to do with this如何在日常中运用
"Track at least one non-material metric of progress in your own life with the same rigor you track income. Relationship depth, learning velocity, hours spent in flow. If you cannot say whether the number is going up, the number probably isn't."『用追踪收入的同等严格度，追踪自己生活中至少一项非物质的进步指标。关系深度、学习速度、心流时长。如果你说不出这个数字是不是在涨，它大概率没在涨。』