We do have it easier with more resources. I&#x27;m gen X, and I wouldn&#x27;t trade my upbringing for the previous generation. And gen Y had it better than I. We have FAR more entertainment; more control over personal transport; better materials for everything from clothes to construction; better occupational health and safety; FAR better civil rights; better levels of healthcare; better public understanding of health; the jobs that are available are better (more office jobs, less factory work); better access to shopping times (24-hour retail is a recent thing); FAR better communications options and quality (we have the <i>internet</i>!); better transport for dissemination of products, including international; better travel options for international travellers... the list goes on and on and on. In the west, we don&#x27;t even have significant wars anymore - after 10 years in Iraq, the US lost 4k people. 10 years! And people still complain that the toll is way too high.<p>We absolutely, posititively, utterly have it easier right now than at any previous generation. Yet we&#x27;ve become so entitled that if life isn&#x27;t <i>perfect</i>, then someone must have had it better previously.