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Multiple things can be true simultaneously,
You can hate all the shit you've got to deal with while acknowledging it's some of the least bad shit people have had to deal with in human history. Arguably the shit we deal with now could be considered the last great hurdle left to us by generations of getting rid of worse shit.
We've made a disease that was basically our natural predator go extinct in the wild, we've touched other worlds and reached the top and bottom of our own, we've gotten so efficient at work that we've started making strange collections of rocks do the mundane and mathematically tedious work for us.
What's left to us is taking our free time back, switching over to a cheaper power source than what we were using, pegging the bottom wrung wage floor to an automatically adjusting living standard ratio, and other fine tuned adjustments on big ideas others have already done the fighting and dying to set the foundations with.
We're not slaying dragons, we're banishing the last ghosts of bitter lords and merchants.
I am not that old, please.