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I disagree with that right-side graphic.
I think that when measured by Quality of Life we have actually been going backwards since maybe 2 decades.
Granted, I'm in Europe, so around here it's pretty clear that the society-wide support structures built in the 60s in areas such as Education, Universal Healthcare, Public Transportation and Social Security are actively being destroyed.
That said, even in the US you can see things like Equality of Opportunity completely reverse from reasonably equal to highly unequal (just look at the graphic of Social Mobility in the US in the past 50 years).
In other words, even the highly individualist and quite asocial American Model of prosperity ("Anybody can become anything they want") has been pretty much totally destroyed.