I'd say that modernization and technological advances as a whole has actually made us less violent and poor compared to the past.
We will always have poverty and violence, perhaps it'll increase or decrease in the near future depending on what kind of situation the world ends up in. But as a whole we have progressed if you look at the rates inwhich violence has decreased despite much news seemingly showing otherwise. But even that helps to illustrate the point in how much violence has decreased in society. News of the murder of multiple people by one person, beheadings, domestic abuse turning to murder and so forth does bring about some shock to us. Many of us sit and wonder how someone could do such a thing.
Take a leap back 200 years or even further and such violence was more common and didn't shock people as much as it does today.
With poverty, that too has improved over time if one look back into history. The gap between the wealthy and poor was much larger then it is today. Of course that doesn't mean it is adequate as it is, but in context it's a positive development.
How things will be in the future we don't know, it depends on which way the world moves. Perhaps we'll further the positive move onwards, or we'll suffer a decline. Who knows?
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