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There is an argument over whether the living standard of people today are better than the past. Some people doubt that the statement. However, I think the living standard of people today are much better than the past. This is because we can know it through watching rising citizens incom and having health care system.
To begin with, we have increasing citizen's annual income than past due to our economic state is developed and stablized. As we have seen, our nation GNP , GDP also higher than past. Thus we have raise great amount of people's income than past, people can have more free time that they can spend their lenghten time on their hobby or preference such as self-development or having family with great time. In other words, they have more time to enjoy their lives. According to a survey conducted by MBC, one of the Korean republic broadcasting situations surveyed among age of 60 old people, 70 % of surveyed people responded that they think that their live standard is better than 30 years ago. They also said that they were very poor because our nation economy was very lower state that many people died due to poverty. However our deligent citizens worked so hard that they brought us 'the miracle of Hanriver' known as our changed economy state character. In context, our life standard more raiser than past.
Also, with the health-care-systems and technology innovation, people have better lifestandards than past. Nowadays when people come down with a ailment and want to diagnosis, then people can diagnosis themselves easily by using Internet searching. In addition, we can also prevent and cure ailment easily. Therefore the dismiss of people rate is decreases clearly, people have less suffer from their torture from sickness. Moreover, people keep their immune system healty due to established hygine notion through Internet. To illustrate this point, I read a newspaper article that authority doctors said that In furture, people would live longer than 90 years old. Because people already know that how to maintain their health and regulary check up due to innovation of medical technology and well-equipped health-care-system. This proves that people have healthier lives than our grandfather's period. Thus they have redundant livestandards than our ancestor.
In conclusion, I definitely believe that the living standard of people today are better than the past as I mentioned above. |