Disagree. The value of human life has definitely being put on a higher value than before. Of course, you’ll still find situations where people are suffering, dying and so on, there is no 100%, but 100 years ago, a man in Europe had to confront the inevitability of being drafted and dying in a war, or starving, now his anguish is directed at the condition of people many kilometres away from him, or at different non-vital commodities they want to buy as they’re well fed, hell, 100 years ago the word genocide wasn’t even created, the fact that you even use that word, as something that needs to be fixed, is undeniable proof that human life is hold on a higher pedestal than before, 100 years ago, there wouldn’t even be an “abhorrent treatment” for homeless people, they would starve to death in a matter of days, and their numbers would be much higher than current ones, and people voting would be considered heretical, current political struggles tend to happen in situations where idealism vs materialism/realism is applied, or when people disagree on what it means to better humanity, but human’s life expectancy has drastically improved, wars, while still present, are fewer than before, and something like a refugee running from a war would be seen as an act of desertion, they wouldn’t be helped by a more fortunate Country like now, and even undeveloped Countries got better, with middle class people from developed Countries having a surplus of resources they can spend on improving those Countries.
You may argue that this is not enough, but that doesn’t mean nothing happened, and, as our condition tends to improve, so will our conception of an idealized society, just now, I’m eating a lot of meat in order to get the necessary proteins (bodybuilding and shit, so I guess you could add it to non essential commodities), and I have to worry about Gout. Gout, being in the past famously known as the “disease of Kings” as only them, could eat meat all days, and I’m far from a millionaire, like very far.