Some things are better many important things are worse. Consumer goods are doing well, and are high quality where regulations are intact, the good can be trivially inspected on purchase, or reputation provides enough of a backstop to prevent quality decreases. That's the upside of capitalism.

On the downside, many people are underemployed even in a so-called tight labor market, fewer and fewer people own anything like a house or car and are highly indebted. Few people have any savings whatsoever and the administration in conjunction with the monied classes seeks to strip whatever protections remain while scapegoating immigrants. Additionally, the US and the west appear to be better off than they are because we use the power of our military, monetary system, and relationships to make sure items are produced cheaply overseas with negligible labor protections resulting in abusive labor conditions.

Also, the planet is dying due to unlimited resource extraction.