▶ Your Answer :
Some
people may argue that the generation of our grandparents was much easier and
more comfortable to live. However, for the entire period of human civilization,
roughly 8000 years, there have been significant changes. Adam and Eve became
seven people population of people. Along with the growth in the number of
population, growth in technology and income has blossomed as well. Therefore, I
strongly believe that life in my period of time has much better condition than
the generation of grandparents’.
Modern
society has created a number of inventions that people only dreamed of in the
past. People in the past had to do the laundries with their bare hands, spend
time to wash their dishes, walk or ride horses to get to the destination, and
sleep on the hard ground. Yet, those are the conditions that the people in
nowadays cannot even imagine living in. There are washing machines that do our
laundries, dish washers that brighten our dishes, cars and airplanes that allow
us to travel around the world within a day, and beds that provide comfortable
environment for us to have sweet dreams. Nevertheless, there is an even better
invention that distinguishes our lives from those of grandparents’; the
Internet. It has made our lives prosperous and easy. Thanks to the Internet, we
can now shop clothes, furniture, and even groceries online. No one is required
to leave their houses to purchase. Moreover, the Internet contains not only the
shopping mall, but also the entertainment. It provides us with great games,
movies, and dramas. Basically, everything that required labor force in the past
is now possible without it due to the help of the Internet.
The
internet and other developments have done a lot to enhance my generation’s
living condition, but economic growth has done tremendous job to enrich the
living environment. For example, my grandfather is a war veteran who fought in
Korean War. The growth domestic product per person back then was less than a
dollar, whereas, the current GDP per person in Korea is over 20,000 dollars.
With this great advancement in economic growth, people can now afford products
such as cars, cozy houses, and clothes.
I
feel grateful for my grandparents and the ancestors beyond them for letting me
enjoy the abundance of this generation. Even though nothing lets me to live an
immortal live, it is evident that remarkable development in technology and
extensive growth in income permit my generation to live in better quality of
lives than that of grandparents’. Therefore, I am strongly against the
statement that our grandparents had better quality of live than our generation. |