It’s not that we’re making up problems it’s that, for the first time in human history, most of us aren’t living on the edge of hunger every single day. That gives us room to finally address issues that were ignored because people were too busy just trying to survive. In my great-grandfather’s time, it was considered completely normal for women to be beaten, kicked out of the house, or made to sleep in the barn, and nobody reacted because basic survival took priority. Today we actually can stop and ask: “Is this right? Is this moral? What should we change?” We’re not inventing problems we’re finally able to deal with the smaller ones that were always there. And that is not loosing "core meaning" or "structure" of life (to get back to original post any my replay to it) it's finally discovering them. It's step forward not step backward.