That's correct. People have always been people. In my short time on this dirty ball in space I have noticed that people I know, and people I work with, and people I interact with on the street, all put less and less value on intangible things like honor, respect, and your personal word being worth something as time goes on.

I'm in no way saying people were better in the past. I'm saying that the value assigned to these intangibles is currently worth less than it was in recent cultural memory.