Awesome, you start out with aunfounded claim, which later we find out that a) you blame capitalism for things that are clearly NOT capitilaism (hint: if a government is influencing, manipulating, or controlling a market, it's not capitalism).

Then you make claims about "we all", so you and your friends are not "we all". Meanwhile people in countries that have been under the boot of despotic, marxist, or socialist governments (or awful combinations) are in fact better. You and your friends are not people in third world nations, who, when their governments get out of the way, are clearly improved when capitalism is allowed and their goods and services are allowed to come to market.

sorry, you don't represent any of the world around you when people say "things have gotten better",. They are using data. You are some anecdote that really doesn't matter in the grand scheme.