The period when our granparents was young was much comfortable to live |
In these days, technology has grown and the world is getting developed everyday. To use Korea as a example, it has grown so much in only 50 years after the colonization of the Japan. Nowadays, people's lives got much better with established computerized machines. The issue at hand is whether the period when our grandparents were children was more pleasant to live. I believe the era when our grandparents were young was the hardest period to maintain their livelihood and live comfortably. My first reason is that, in former days, technology wasn't developed much like today's. All the machines were being operated by hands and people's labors was always used much in all things. However, now we do all things automatically with high developed technology and new machines. For instance, in old times, people buried food in the ground to keep it cool instead of refrigerator, they did all the laundry by hands as a replacement of a washing machine and also they used a handcart instead of other transformation. There are so many things instead of these things that I mentioned. Moreover, in old days there were hierarchy which suppressed people's lives. People were divided into three or four groups. The first group was the nobles, the most powerful people, the second group was the commoner and the interior group was the slaves. Their social position was given by their parents and the people couldn't change their status. The society was most ruled by the nobles and they could do anything they want. Since they regulated all the things, the people didn't had any freedom. As the world flourished and grew much, the hierarchy disappeared but the country was keep reigned by the dictator as of old. The North Korea can be the example. In conclusion, the former days weren't that good for the people to live and enjoy their lives. Some country might lived with no problem from the beginning and others might lived very hard due to different history. However, my country Korea wasn't that wealthy before and lots of people had died with poverty and wars. I believe the period that I'm living right now is much better than old days. |