You're right we don't do as well as we could. Still, don't forget, on balance the world is a better place that it has been in the past.
"With all there is above us we have plenty for 'everyone' to do, yet we look down at each other instead
...And we are on the verge of squandering it...We look at groups of people not the entire race.."
It was Plato who said, “He, O men, is the wisest, who like Socrates, knows that his wisdom is in truth worth nothing”