Are We All Just Jumping for Joy?

On virtually any large, broad metric of human well being over long periods of time, things have been improving consistently for quite a long time. So on the one hand, you might say, why aren't we all just jumping for joy? I mean, because we have so much bounty and though the world is not perfect, we've improved in so many ways. It's so much better than it was. And it's hard for us to appreciate how difficult and challenging human life was for almost all human history,. Even just a couple of generations ago.