I think so many things are SOOOOO much better now, to a point it's truly wild and hard to grasp how much worse they were not that long ago. Basically anything in the realm of options, freedom, knowledge, aesthetics, entertainment, technology, and convenience is 2x to 30x better than what it used to be, in say the 80s or even 90s.

Food choices outside of huge cities used to be crap. Iceberg lettuce was the only salad, bad Chinese or Italian the “exotic” options. Apples or bananas for fruit, that's about it. Sitcoms were god awful and we watched them over and over again. You got one choice of whatever clothing or furniture was in style that year, which like three gay guys decided for the entire country and that was what was in every store in the country, like it or not. If you didn't get to the bank by 5 pm on a Friday…and you had to actually go into the bank, you just had no money or way to pay for things all weekend. No one delivered things to your house unless it was a big piece of furniture you bought from Sears or something, and they only delivered during office hours. If you wanted to listen to a song, you might have no way at all to figure out who the artist was, and wait months or years to find out when it randomly came on the radio again, and you had to save up the equivalent of about $70 in today’s dollars and go into a store and buy the entire album to hear it again. People constantly wondered about or disputed facts and had no way at all to find out the answer…not unless you cared enough to get your ass to the library and try to look it up in the encyclopedia or something…no Google, no way to find out information. Everyone watched three things on TV and it played once at a specific time and if you missed it, that was it, you missed out forever and had no idea what everyone was talking about the next day. People didn't go on planes unless they were rather rich. The number of product choices in any given category were about 1% what they are now. Movie and TV screens were fuzzy, we all had to share one phone and one TV and one bathroom. the inside of most people’s houses and all their stuff looked like crap. You had to carry around a bunch of keys everywhere, and a book with all your contacts’ phone numbers written down in them.

The convenience, options, product offerings, comfort, and entertainment, aesthetic, and technological abilities today is so freaking amazingly far beyond what it used to be I can hardly believe it. I have no idea what people mean when they say not much has changed, it's a totally different universe.

But what sucks about it all is that no one appreciates any of it, or spends even two seconds being happy or content about any of it. Basically the second anything gets better, you're like “wow cool” for maybe one day and then you get used to it and it just becomes the norm. So now you can't go back, because that would be worse, but the better stuff does not actually add anything or make your life seem better or you happier. And that's a black pill and a bummer. What's the point of more and better options and stuff if it does not make anyone any happier, and just raises their standards and makes it so they can no longer abide living with less?

Also, people are different. No one has a memory anymore. No one has patience. People are far more narcissistic and callous and intolerant of effort or discomfort or waiting. They're way bigger whiners and way less ashamed to behave in decadent ways. People don't care about each other or really anything as much as they used to. Why should they, there's always a million other options and backups. I don't exempt myself from any of this, but it does make us worse people, IMO. I can't think of a single thing about actual people that I think has gotten better, other than perhaps some of them becoming more knowledgeable and less provincial.

We’ve basically all become like a kid who has Christmas morning 365 days a year…bored, unimpressed, spoiled people who complain more and more even though they literally have everything better than anyone ever has in all of history.