A sad thing of that view is it takes a pessimistically biased view of history.

Life expectancy at birth is up from like 22 years to 80 or so because most kids used to die in unpleasant ways.

The percentage of people dying through warfare and violence rather than peacefully is way down, much more than 10x.

We have far more information, comfort, ability to travel and similar.

And most of it comes down to tech. But human nature, however good thing get is to find something that's shit and focus on how awful it is.

I mean I understand - Terminator 2 with killer robots is much more entertaining that something about everyone having a nice time, but it's not the likely reality.