▶ Your Answer :
It is
plausible the claim that people of today are less happy and satisfied than
people in the past. There are, in fact, many perspectives to look at the
difference, but in general, our lives have much improved throughout the time
and people are more likely to be happy today. In current generation, people
live more comfortably with all new technology and inventions. Now, contrary to
the past, we live more healthily with much improved medical system and more
peacefully with more stable governments. Except that people enjoyed more simple
lives and were more connected with one another, I can’t even think of a single
reason to believe people became less happy as time passed.
To begin
with, humans are enjoying more various ways to live quality of lives. For
instance, with the invention of smartphone, people can entertain themselves
more conveniently. They look at websites, study, play games, and chat with
their friends wherever and whenever they want. That is a benefit people in the
past could not even imagine. In the past, people used a cell phone that could
only make a call, send text messages, or take pictures. Thanks to tremendous
advancement of technology, we afford lives that would have been inconceivable a
long time ago.
In
addition, humans experience less and less tragedies with the passage of time.
Think about the time when people were worried about war. Wars so frequently
occurred a long time ago because countries fought with one another and
governments were so turbulent before the introduction of democracy. In that
time, ordinary citizens were not considered worthy of respect in social classes
and so many lives were sacrificed for the purpose of annexing foreign land or
overthrowing of the government. With democracy, most of the countries in the
world are living contented with peace nowadays. There are still wars occurring
in some developing countries like Iraq and Iran, but in most part of the world,
there is no more war. Every person is respected and highly valued in most
democratic countries and governments are striving to promote and protect those
people. In contrast to the past time when people feared risking their lives and
fighting for their rights, people today are living happier lives in more stable
condition.
Lastly,
humans are living more healthily with advancement of medicine. People in the
past could not afford the necessary treatment and medication when they were
ill, and many people died before reaching 50. It is reported that young babies
could not stay alive and died before growing up a long time ago. It was before
the invention of penicillin that most of medications we know were created. It
is a rare occurrence today that people die with the disease untreated due to
much advanced medicines. They can go to a nearby hospital and gets the best
available treatment possible. There are still unbeatable diseases like cancer,
but even the survival rate of those diseases is increasing these days.
In
conclusion, people have absolutely become happier and afford better lives than
before.People came to enjoy lives better with new technology, people are free
from risking their own lives, and people afford healthier lives with development
of medicines. I sometimes want to relive the past when life was simpler, but I
do not miss it a lot and love the life of recent days with amazing benefits that
my ancestors could not afford. |