For every depressed westerner posting doom and gloom online like this, there are a million people who have been lifted out of poverty and into the middle class and have experience upward mobility like nothing else in history.
My friends in China show me entire cities that didn't exist 20 years ago but now have millions of people whizzing around in high speed trains, driving electic cars and making 20-30x what their parents used to make.
My home town in India went from having a one-lane road when I was growing up to being connected to a national highway, an international airport and a subway.
The town I lived in the Middle East in the 90s now peppered with skyscrapers and factories and one of the largest ports in the world.
Meanwhile, my neighborhood in the Bay Area complains about building a new apartment complex and looks pretty much like what it did in the 1970s. And then people write blog posts about how nothing is improving.
Maybe it's time to look outside your narrow viewpoints and realize there's world outside that has changed dramatically and you're left behind.