Inequality has increased, but not in the way most people assume. Almost everyone is materially better off than their prior-generation equivalents. It's just that some people (typically, those closest to the source of the improvement) have seen significantly more improvement than average.
That isn't true. Social institutions have declined and the welfare state has receded in most of the United States. The illusion that marginal increases in the availability of technology much of which has been showed to tacitly lower one's quality of living (consider social media's effect on the self image of teenagers) has somehow resulted in a better quality of life for many is myth you tell yourself to justify you living better than most.
You are rebutting a point I didn't make, unless by "available technology" you mean things like food, electricity, medicine, etc. You are also making huge unjustified assumptions about who I am and why I believe the things I do.
