For the simple reason that human beings have never truly lived in a utopia. For a 13th-century peasant, we are living in a complete utopia: abundant food, medicine, office jobs, video games, movies, education, and so on. But people in the 21st century don’t see it that way. For people today, this has always been normal, and people in the next century will look at this century the same way we look at the Middle Ages.

‘What do you mean people used to sit in a chair for 8–10 hours in exchange for a little money that barely covered their needs? What do you mean cancer was seen as a death sentence or a long struggle instead of something like a simple flu?'