Not better for your or me, just that it's better or comparable to the most of the world who lives in poverty and squalor.
As far as measuring happiness, one method would be levels of stress hormones in the blood.
As far as measuring happiness, one method would be levels of stress hormones in the blood.
Infectious diseases, though, are very much a product of agricultural society, as is starvation/famine. We might be living through the century (or possibly, have just lived through the century) where our technology finally enables us to fix these two problems caused by our ancestors' conversion to agriculture.
[0] http://www.anth.ucsb.edu/faculty/gurven/papers/GurvenKaplan2...