Question

do you feel life is easier now than it was 50 years ago

Answer 1

Personal hygiene,
Personal pocket computers (smartphones) with ability to instantly recall any information (little good it has done to us though), entertain to no end, help with many areas of your life, keeping your organised, …
… and of course our phones can connect us anywhere, to anyone, on a whim for mere pennies.
Much better cars (never ever getting lost with the SatNav; shiny outsides and plush insides; much, much cleaner — no stench at all; and safer; the dashboards feature virtually ultramodern technology with lots of information for the driver, never boring to drive), — instead of being stinky, clunky, dirty, unreliable, requiring constant maintenance and knowledge of mechanical labour, and only having a boring speedo, petrol gauge and water temperature gauge.
In general we now have much more respect to environment and do much more recycling instead of multiplying the landfills. (Me, likes).
Much better medicine (we really know much more about our health now, I still shudder when I recall a root canal extraction done to me with arsenicum anesthesia in 80’s…), and most people here in Britain do not smoke anymore, cigs are nearly banned,