Indeed. I think I've spent way too much time arguing with people on HN like you replied to, it's simply not possible to convince them that the world has improved, and so I don't try anymore, I've been getting ragebaited too much in this thread with takes like theirs, about how they apparently can't get into some designer clothing store or another, wholly counting the fact that clothes as a whole have gotten cheaper precisely due to capitalism.
Yeah, there's almost a religious belief nowadays that the world is worse, people are worse off, things are sliding downhill, etc. People are married to the idea and get upset at any evidence to the contrary. It's such a shame.
It's very poetic though, in a tragic sort of way. Very human. I can't think of anything more human than to live in the best age of all time, one others could scarcely have dreamed of, and yet to complain about it incessantly because some have more than others.
