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I am a child of the 50s and 60s. Many, many things were much better than today. I’ll add to the list:

How was it that we had good schools, roads, fire departments, police, water, and even great libraries on 2 to 3% sales tax? We can’t do crap on four times as much now. Mind you that is four times as much in real inflation adjusted dollar terms.

Bicycle and walk to school

We were of modest means and we could AFFORD to take the dog to the vet.

Life was quiet and we didn’t miss much at all

Property tax assessment changes came once in a blue moon instead of once a year.

There were less people but we were almost ALL just AMERICANS not this polyglot mess we have now.

If you asked someone to do work at your house you could be pretty much assured they spoke ENGLISH.

We did not live in constant concern or fear of not knowing what law we had broken. The things you should not do were just common sense.

An upscale house was over 2000 square feet and modest houses were 1500 square feet or more. We did fine with a family of four or five. When we moved up to 1800 square feet we thought we had moved into a mansion that today would hardly merit a first glance let alone a second one.

And on and on.

I have no doubt at all that times were better than they are now. I remember bad things and I remember the Cuban Missile crisis, Duck and Cover and fear when the air raid siren went off but they were still much better days than these.