Well, I believe nothing really has changed since the beginning of time. Even our ancestors complained about these very same things; fast life, less time for important things, low morality etc. etc.
We cannot greatly change the people or things around us, but we can definitely change ourselves. As the Great master Bruce Lee summed it up...
“Empty your mind, be formless, shapeless - like water. Now you put water into a cup, it becomes the cup, you put water into a bottle, it becomes the bottle, you put it in a teapot, it becomes the teapot. Now water can flow or it can crash. Be water, my friend.”
There will be stress and sadness when we refuse to change ourselves and adapt to new things.
Cheers.