[esperent]

I think it depends on the country. I'm from Ireland and live in Vietnam. Both of these countries are doing ok. Of course they are not perfect, some things improve and some get worse just as they ever did.

But visibly decomposing? No. We're doing ok, as is much of the world, especially considering that we're at the tail end of a pandemic that massively disrupted the social order. I think we're doing pretty well when I consider that, in fact.

Some other countries - the US, Brazil, Hungary and of course Russia, are not doing so well right now. But they are not the entire world.

[BulgarianIdiot]

The problem is that we're highly interconnected. Even when global trade suffers, we're connected through the Internet. So the sentiments flow and spread globally. I agree some countries may be doing better, but for them to keep doing better they'd have to be paradoxically culturally isolated, and yet economically open (because production costs would skyrocket otherwise), and the latter almost implies Internet these days, which on its own turn implies cultural exchange.

It's messy.