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Honestly everything since electricity. The number of people we now support at a level of comfort that was unimaginable to even a king 250 years ago.
Waking up at night in the middle of winter in a warm house instantly lit, getting up to poop on a warm comfortable indoor throne with fresh spring breeze scent in the air. The poop flushes away effortlessly and your hands and bum are quickly fresh & clean with running warm water scented soaps and dry with materials 10x more soft & absorbent than the famed Turkish towels. You decide to eat an orange (despite the fact they don't grow within 1,000 miles of here) and heat a frozen snack in the microwave before heading back to bed.
And, unlike most households for most of history, neither you nor anyone in your family currently has tapeworms
My mom told me she woke up one night with some worm thing in her mouth and she had to get it out...
Ewwww idk why she told me that story...
Average farmer-villager life lol
They told me there are also blood-sucking worms, that'd hurt like hell if they bite you, in the fields where my grandparents worked and my mom had to help out in the farm... (like from like I think she said 8 year old or something... she'd help grandparents as soon as she got home from school...)
She makes me feel like I'm privilaged to not have to do manual farming work...
I mean... sure... the hardest stuff I did at her age was file taxes for her and help her translate stuff from English... perhap I am "privilaged"?
We all are.
There is a reason people flocked into cities even before we had electricity and civil sewage systems. Subsistence farming is even worse.