Sure, my own childhood. Even my parents say while things were always tough during those years, things have gotten far worse now. The mere fact that you are on FR today says alot about that. 40 years ago you wouldn’t have thought to be on a thing such as FR and be saying and discussing the things you do.
Your childhood may have been great, but you're still alive now, when things seem so bleak. Using you own standards, shouldn't your parents have chosen to not have you, since the world is so bad today?
40 years ago...1970. One of the most corrupt presidents in U.S. history had recently fled office only to be replaced by a "republican" who promptly established wage and price controls, launched the EPA and was sucking up to communist china. In the meantime, the politicians were screwing up the Vietnam war and betraying the South Vietnamese. I could also mention the hippies, yippies, black panthers and Charles Manson. Yeah, I would have been on FR had it existed in 1970.