We have it better than anyone ever has in history, your life is literally more comfortable than the emperors of Rome. No one has ever worked less than you, never had to worry about starvation or invasion or actual for-real slavery. You've been given everything by the system you believe is oppressing you.
So where's the greener grass? What's your solution to this life of pain you seem to be living? It sounds to me like you are advocating communism, but I don't want to make any assumptions, so you tell me.
Arguably we are now in a time where this is not true anymore:
https://edition.cnn.com/2020/01/11/politics/millennials-income-stalled-upward-mobility-us/index.html The 2-3 generations before us that somehow still keep being the people in charge In the US have screwed us. So to answer your question: the people directly before us worked less for more money, and we are in the worst place geopolitically since the cold war ended. My life is easier than that of a medieval peasant, but why the fuck is it harder than my parents'?