▶ Your Answer : There are many people who think that people
can do so many things as the time progresses to the modern era. However, I
think that people only do a few things well nowadays because of the following reasons:
(1) people do not have to do all of things themselves to make something, and
(2) the modern society require people to be specialists.
First of all, we don’t have to follow all
of the process to obtain what we want. It is because we can just purchase it
with a money. For example, in the medieval age, people used to cultivate wheat
and bake it to make a bread. However, it is not the case of today; we can just
purchase it with money. It means that we don’t have to know how grow the wheat,
make dough, and bake it. As a results, we do not experience these various
activities, and therefore we cannot do these well.
Secondly, the modern society do not want us
to be generalists; in contrast, we are being required to be specialists. And to
be a specialist, we have to focus on specific things. Let’s demonstrate it from
the same example mentioned above. We do not have to know just a one thing about
farming or baking. It is enough to do well in our occupation because we can
earn money from it. If I am a lawyer who knows about law well, then I can make
profit from it and I can afford the bread from bakery. In other words, I can do
so many things if I just focus on one thing which I can do well to be a
specialist. Consequently, the modern people do not have to do the various things
and so we only do well in a few things.
In brief, we do not have to do many things
to obtain what we want and we are required to be specialists in modern society.
In this regard, I agree with the idea that people only do a few things well
today. |