"Anyone with a working brain can realize for all the shit we are in now, barring a world shattering catastrophe we are better now than 50 or 100 or 500 or 2000 years ago."

50 is pretty debatable, if you live in the U.S. Some argue real wage growth stopped in the 1970s.

http://socialevolutionforum.com/2013/04/04/the-end-of-prospe...

"The post-1978 stagnation of real wages for both less skilled and for typical workers is a big part of the explanation of why economic inequality has been growing in the United States since the 1970s."

That's 36 years ago. Going back another 14 years to 1964, wages were still growing, and prosperity was much more broadly shared than today. As a society, we are all much fatter now, probably exercise much less on average, and growth in life expectancy seems to have leveled off. We probably work more hours, especially on a per family basis. A lot of technological progress has been devoted towards entertainment, and it's debatable how much happier that has actually made us.

I'm sure there are some things that have improved, it's just not as clear cut as you make it out to be.