YANBU, but then, apart from a few spots in history, life has always been shite for most ordinary people in one way or another.
We have just swapped one set of circumstances for another. 100 years ago, a working woman wouldn't have needed a car; she would have walked to work because work would have been in a nearby factory or mill or shop.
And yes, people had outside toilets but, as my 87-year-old grandmother pointed out a few months ago, that meant you didn't have a bathroom to clean. :o
It's swings and roundabouts. Modern white goods were great in terms of freeing women from the physical labour of domestic chores, but they also had certain cultural implications that led to an increase in work at the same time. It became culturally unacceptable to wear a shirt for a week and just change the collar and cuffs. It became viable to purchase fashionable clothes made of fabrics that didn't have to "wear" well and do without washing over a period of time, so we ended up with twice as much washing.
And yes, we now have central heating, a godsend, but that also means that it has become viable for adults and tweens/teens to occupy different rooms for a large part of their home life, which has implications for women in terms of family dynamics, how the house runs and the amount of domestic work that then needs doing.
Again, we have incredible access to education these days and young people can stay on until 18, but, working in HE, sometimes I am not too sure whether we haven't just stretched the acquisition of relatively basic skills and knowledge to take place over 18 years+ rather than 14 or less.
The only thing I would say is that, in historical terms, food is pretty cheap today: poultry, in particular.
And I do have to add ... I get a bit irritated by the "first world problems" meme as it seems to reflect an exceptionalist attitude that strikes me as being naive.
Put simply, in terms of standard of living, I would not say that Western countries are at the top of the tree at all, with the exception of Switzerland. I have lived and worked in non-western countries, and the typical middle class standard of living for citizens in some Middle Eastern and Asian countries can be astonishing -- and I am not talking about the elites here at all, I am talking civil servants, teachers, nurses, policemen, small business owners etc.
It is also worth remembering that the Ugandan Asians who came to Britain after Amin threw them out in the 70s were shocked by the living standards of the English. They just could not believe such poverty existed in the homeland of the British empire amongst white people.