Our status or the hardship or ease of the times in which we live doesn't need to determine our goodness, though it might affect the form that goodness takes.
During Israel's slavery in Egypt, the Pharaoh instructed the Hebrew midwives to kill the male newborns.
They didn't, because they had more respect for God than even a high positioned Pharaoh.
Their actions are one of the reasons Moses survived infancy to become one of the greatest leaders of all time.