I was thinking about this the other day, from the frame of reference of a middle-upper class person 30-40 years ago. At their time, tech was at its peak. Life was the greatest it could possibly be! And yet with so many problems, conflicts, economic difficulties, and ordinary life stressors.

We feel the same today as they felt then. We just have better toys and different problems. Some problems might be more existential (e.g. climate change), but day-to-day is it so different? In material terms yes, in personal terms not so much.

The human condition is far slower to change than the world it inhabits.