Amazing that we have to be reminded of this.

Murders. Child mortality. Death in automobiles. Work place death. Protection from disease by the medical system. 

All substantively better, yet we collectively are as worried as ever. Education system, where are you? Elected officials, why are you reinforcing this? 

Is it as simple as there's far more incentive to keep us worried than to remind us of how good we have it? Or, do we as a species need to worry - is that a functional state for a tribe of hunter-gatherers and we don't know what to do with our angst in the time of the greatest plenty and safety in the history of the world?

https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2020/02/21/bernies_wrong_we_are_better_off_today_than_we_were_45_years_ago_142456.html