Depends on who you mean when you say "we". If you are one a of the billions who bear the burden of the unpaid external costs that allow a few live in unprecedented luxury it ain't so golden.
Life is materially better for a higher % of the world's population than it's ever been. Rates of starvation and disease are down all around the world, life expectancies are drastically up in all but the very very worst few countries (compared even to just a few decades ago), rates of child morality are way down. In the developing world, more people are being raised out of poverty every day than ever before. And in the West, the "poor" today live like the aristocrats of a short time ago.
People have no historical perspective when they perceive all the doom and gloom.