your boss isn’t allowed to fire you because you are gay
your boss isn’t allowed to fire you for religion
we got the 40 hour work week and weekends
child labor is (mostly) outlawed
women can go to college
prohibitions like on alcohol and marijuana are slowly fading away
the grocery store has avocados all year long
But yeah, nothing ever changes incrementally. All those activists who worked their whole lives to peacefully bring these things about, well, that was a waste.
ETA: I’m aware that the end of slavery was not quite “peaceful.” I stand by the point that things are getting better all the time, and that it is mostly from incremental gains.