In the last 5 to 10 years everything seems to suck: product’s and services quality plummeted, everything from homes to cars to food became really expensive, technology stopped to help us to be something designed to f@ck with us and our money, nobody seems to be able to hold a job anymore, everyone is broke. Life seems worse in general.
Why? Did COVID made this happen? How?
When you’re going forward and progressing, it is easier to forget things and move on. However, in present case, in all areas there are numbers showing that basic necessities have objectively gotten worse. Home ownership has become unreachable for an average earner, wealth gap is higher, anti vaxers are bringing back diseases that used to be under control, women are losing their bodily autonomy, and extremist ideologies that used to be crazy people talk are getting double digit support. And there seems to be no indications of them improving.
You forgot to mention child labor