we just live in the least bad times in all history.

This argument worked in 1990 and maybe even 2000.

It does not work for 2010 or 2020. The "least bad time" in all history has come and past.

There too was a time when Romans lived in the least bad time in all history, and then it took another 400 years to get back to those levels. Read the room. The future is of collapse, not prosperity.