Exactly, obviously things could be better if everyone was more generous but gratefulness is something that is lost in todays society and it could solve a lot of problems if more people were grateful.

You don’t know my story. I don’t have health insurance at all. I’m still grateful for the fact hospitals will treat you even if you don’t have health insurance. Even if we can’t afford health insurance it is still way better quality than it was 50 years ago. And I’m not diverting progress in any way by saying people should be grateful. If you think being grateful is the same as settling for less than that’s just wrong

This may be true, but it doesn’t matter. The whole point is to keep trying to make a better society for the next generation instead of blaming those before us. And I think we should be a little grateful, the fact you have time to spend on Reddit shows the sacrifice previous generations had. Almost 90% of the US has air conditioning, people die more often of overeating than starvation in the US, and even if you’re not from the US, if you simply own a fridge, an AC unit, an iPhone, and heated water, you could arguably say you’re living better than John D. Rockefeller did for most of his life.