As rough as it is here, you could not imagine a life there, working 2x as hard for 1/2 as much hope.
They just have dramatically lower aspirations, specifically they aspire to live to have kids, at which point it's all their problem.
The reason the West has gotten so much worse is now we have to compete with people who have literally nothing and would kill for 1/10th what we have. They're just as capitalist as we are, they just include more direct violence in their interpretation of capitalism.
Conversely, the West in general and the US in particular is also
Attacking economically
Attacking socially
Attacking via proxy countries
Attacking people physically on their own soil
And have been doing so since forever, so your apparent narrative of the world's richest and most powerful collection of countries being put upon victims is misguided at best.