This is your opinion. "The West" is not broken, your perspective of it is.
Have you read the very long thread titled “the decline of functioning society” which outlines the process of third worldification of western societies.
Here is a very brief summary:
-A lot of manufacturing shifted to third world countries for stuff to be made cheaply meaning stuff just isn’t the same quality as before (e.g. throw your shoes away every 12 months because they are falling apart).
-The endless immigration into the west means more and more jobs are being filled with low IQ third world barbarians e.g. go to buy something from a shop and you will get served by an Indian or a Chinese person being paid peanuts who has zero concept of customer service.
-This is in addition to the general cuts in staffing levels which have become normalised across the board to the point where most businesses are deliberately understaffed to cut costs because consumers have gotten accustomed to shitty service. Just a few days ago I went to a fancy pastry shop to buy something and I was waiting 10 minutes to be served because it was busy but there was only one person working. This kind of thing has become normalised now.
-Crumbling and ageing infrastructure in the west. Potholes in roads are becoming increasingly common in the west and cities like Bangkok, Medellin and Santiago have faster and more modern trains than cities like Sydney, Melbourne, New York, or Chicago.
-Rising crime in the west due to less job opportunities and the flood of third world criminal immigrants. I have seen this first hand. Where I live in Sydney, Australia in a posh neighbourhood. 30 years ago pretty theft would have been almost unthinkable in a good neighbourhood and now while it’s not rampant it certainly does happen from time to time. I have had two bicycles stolen, my dad has had a pair of shoes stolen (was airing/drying out just outside the door of the house after the shoes getting rained on) and I have a friend who had his car broken into and his laptop stolen from inside the car. Let’s not even talk about the roaming tape gangs of Africans and Pakistanis in countries like England, Germany and France raping young women. I have met a number of British women living in Australia who have told me there huge swathes of London where they simply refuse to go to those areas at night to due to the risk of getting robbed or raped.
-The quality of care in public hospitals has declined
-The decline of freedom and free speech in the west. They recently passed laws in Australia that people peacefully protesting can get arrested by the government if they don’t have permission to protest. And Germany and England have been arresting people merely for making negative comments online about Jews or homosexuals. So much for freedom in the west. That is long gone now.
-The woke mind virus completely taking over the west e.g. fake sexual harassment claims, DEI discrimination when you apply for a job, etc
And I could go on and on and about the third worldification of the west.
We are well past the golden age of western civilisation.
Basically every advantage the west had over the third world other than higher wages is gradually being diminished to the point where you have to ask yourself if you have enough assets to live without working what do you really get out of being in a western country anymore? You pay the higher cost of living but you are getting increasingly third world quality so you may as well move to the third world where everything is at least cheaper and the women are better.
Don’t get me wrong the west is still more functional than the third world but the gap is narrowing every decade to the point where the west will become fairly similar to the third world within a few decades.
