It's our nature to think things are always bad, especially as we age, but actually, the world is in pretty good shape right now.
There is a much higher percentage of people marked as middle class around the world than ever before, and that's astounding considering how many more people there are today.
There are a higher percentage of democracies in the world today than ever before and lots of them are doing well.
Wars are contained to hot spots. That's actually pretty good by the normal horrible standards of mankind.
Our economy is, relatively speaking, pretty good. It's much better than the '70's when all the cities went broke.
It's better than the .com bust of the 2000's.
And it's way better than 2009-2011 and unlike much of the world, we had a very strong rebound after 2020.
Look at all the investment in the cities. New York looks like a palace compared to when I moved there in 1982.
And for having so many people struggling with inflation, those same people sure do buy a lot of stuff, travel, snd buy bigger houses than anyone in the '70s thought was possible. etc.