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Common misconception! Seems to me that we're doing better on almost every metric ever. We're in a temporary rough spot, sure, but it's a minor blip on the chart of history. I'm not trying to downplay the various hardships lots of people are undergoing, but hardships have always existed.
We have better health, longer life expectancy, higher income, more education, more food (and other) security, less war and homicide, and less child mortality than ever before. If you're born into the worst possible conditions in a given country now, you will almost certainly be better off than if you were born into the best possible conditions in that country 200 years ago.
I can find more reliable sources another time, but for now:
https://ourworldindata.org/a-history-of-global-living-conditions-in-5-charts
https://www.vox.com/2014/11/24/7272929/global-poverty-health-crime-literacy-good-news
Of course, I can't claim that people are happier. That's much less quantifiable and much more complicated. Many of the positives have presumably come with emotional/social negatives, and human happiness appears to have diminishing returns. In some ways, some existential risks have also increased (nuclear and biological warfare, climate change, AI etc).
But I guess you could go have a shot at living in the 530s-40s! Volcanic eruption leading to global darkness and severe winter conditions for over a year, causing acute crop failure and widespread famine and death, followed a couple of years later by another eruption and then the bubonic plague, which wiped out 1/3 to 1/2 of the population in the Roman Empire.
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Oh, I wasn't meaning now as it is. I was meaning as it may be within the year. Think about it: there are many conditions in which, say, a nuclear war could come about. There are ten nations with legalised ability to create nuclear weaponry, including Russia, America and China. (And seven others which aren't as important, including Israel). I won't say all that I could, but I can see ways that within this year the world could become worse than it ever has been before. Not as it is at this moment, but as it could be. :)