Cowen's argument is the result of a purely imagined philosophy of the world only attainable by the priveleged for whom everything has in fact worked out in the end. It ignores the very real economic suffering of so many in the present because there's a likelihood that the homeless might have a cellphone due to the wonderful economic growth of the past century, that it's all worth it because the poor of the future will have the possibility of even greater gadgets. It says nothing of their hunger and privation.
We must have faith that economic growth will solve all the world's problems without one scrap of evidence that has ever been the case. Economic growth does not make inequality obsolete, phase out race and sex discrimination due to their irrationality, nor does it do anything to religate genocide to be only something read in history books. Those victories will only be won by much struggle and actual work for social justice, not pontification. That this book could be published just as fascism is yet again on the rise in economically prosperous countries is a sad joke.
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