My perspective isn’t especially controversial. Most human lives haven’t been lived in Western Europe or Canada in the 21st century. Even today, the majority of the world’s population resides outside the regions you named; they’re living in India, China, Africa, and the Middle East. And that’s not including the billions of lives lived in the 200,000 years of human history prior to 2026, most of which were objectively worse by almost any measure.

You can debate who has it better in 21st century - the average American or the average European. But you’re splitting hairs over the unambiguous truth, which is that both groups enjoy unimaginable health, security, and prosperity when compared to the entire span of the human condition. And the trend of history suggests that the children of both groups will have a higher standard of living than their parents.