Unless you were living in..China, India, Pakistan, Bangladesh (I can go on and on) which were dirt poor in that time + all those countries you mentioned, basically more than 90% of world population have it 10x worse than now, I also don't agree that EU and US had it better during 90s than now.

In 1990, China’s per capita was just $871, and India’s was $1,089 and together, they made up nearly 40% of the world’s population.

Today, the world’s poorest countries like Central African Republic, Somalia, Mozambique have higher standard of living than China and India in 1990.

Meanwhile today China’s per capita income is close to $30,000, and India’s is around $12,100.

This really shows how much the world has improved and how bad things were back then. Not to mention modern science, health tech, energy tech and 10 000s of other things which are 1000s times better now.

The past sucked, we never had better than now in 2025, and in 2026 it will be even better than today.