If every generation does that then rest assured you'll be no different so get off your high horse. Moaning about the previous generation makes England a shit hole ? Compared to poverty, drugs, violence, vandalism etc , no it doesn't.
To be honest we've got a way to fall and the way things are going we potentially could.
When you see how the health system has been plundered and people are dying because of it in the Ukraine even 5 years ago to suggest the UK could go down the path would be madness but now?
You only have to look at some of the contracts handed out during lockdown.