Do you think people were more optimistic about the future during World War 2? Or after WW2 when everyone was worried about nuclear annihilation?

How about before that when your new baby had a 30% chance of death before age 5?

Before that, starvation, plague and war were always real things to worry about for the entirety of human history.

I think everyone reading this has the same problem of needing to figure out hedonics in order to appreciate what you do have instead of focusing on minuscule bullshit that you don't have.