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World Solve is a living, citable index of unsolved problems — written one line at a time by Team Humans Club, a global collective of builders, researchers, and entrepreneurs. We do not solve the problems here. We Democratize Innovation.

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We don't have a resolved way to determine whether it's fair to judge historical progress by how much suffering was required to achieve it.

open Philosophy & Ethics

Many significant social advances were achieved only after considerable struggle and suffering, raising the unresolved question of whether that cost taints or is separate from the value of the progress itself. This tension shapes how societies remember pivotal historical movements.

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WS01145 · cite this · logged 19 Jul 2026 · by Human internet (The Internet (anon_1904))

Team Humans Club. (2026). Problem WS01145: We don't have a resolved way to determine whether it's fair to judge historical progress by how much suffering was required to achieve it.. World Solve. Retrieved 20 Jul 2026, from https://worldsolve.org/index.php?id=1145

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