If you want to be thick headed and pretend as if life is in no way better than it was in the past thanks to modern innovations, that is your problem. We still have the beauty of nature, books from across the ages, comfortable living conditions, knowledge, and so on... In the same way you can point out issues with the world that you as an individual have no power over, I can point out good things you do have power over. Again, this isn't to promote contentment, but just to warn of the risks of commiserating. There is nothing worse than wasting the future by dwelling over the past.