ZFBoxcar

Look at the world of the 1800s and early 1900s. You had colonial empires dominating 90% of the world's nations, slavery/extreme racial discrimination, women had few rights, most men didn't have much in the way of rights either, constant wars between major world powers, extremely unsafe working conditions, little sanitation, environmental conditions poorer than today, etc. Today, everywhere is better off except possibly Africa. Hell, the world as a whole is even moving closer to free market capitalism. The pre-WWI era was also relatively free market (in some ways more so than now), but that era of classical liberalism had to compete with too many negative influences to be able to last. The current era of relatively free markets is more expansive and stable.

Only if you accept arbitrary religious morals (some religious morals happen to be rational morals as well, but not even close to all of them) is it even possible to argue that we are morally worse off. Unless you don't think ending/minimizing discrimination, promoting rule of law and democracy, and reducing crime and poverty are moral aims as well as material aims, we are definitly better off morally.