▶ Your Answer : Some people think that in
times of an economic crisis, governments have to reduce spending money on arts
and making parks or public gardens. However, I disagree with the idea that
government should spend less money on arts and making parks for the following
two reasons. First, governments don’t have to spend a lot of money on
supporting scientific research. Also, parks and helps increasing the economy of
local communities. Lastly, arts can make people to reduce stress.
First of all, Governments are not responsible for supporting scientific
research. To be specific, scientific research is already well supported by other
places such as universities and private companies. Thus, governments don’t need
to be an additional supporter especially if it has no practical use. Let me
bring up my personal story as an example. I work as an engineer at a large
corporation in Korea. My job is to come up with innovative ideas and create
products to release in the future. Many of my ideas and sample products will
never be released, but I continue to research because I’m getting paid for it
by the company. Once they decide on a product and start selling it they will
make a lot of money so they don’t worry about investments. Hence, there is
absolutely no need for extra funding from the government for my research.
Second, parks help the economy of
local communities improve. What this means is that making parks is helpful for
the environment, and cleaner environments can be beneficial for agriculture,
fishing and even tourism. Let me bring my town’s story as an example. I live in
a small town near a big city. We usually depended on tourism. However, because
of the air pollution from the city, tourists didn’t visit my town, which makes
us be more difficult economically. Also, people tended to move to the big city
because there weren’t many jobs in the town. One day, people in our town
council started to make parks and gardens. Within a year, our town became very
clean and this brought many tourists. This created new jobs, which boosted the
economy of the town.
Lastly, arts make people work more efficiently
by reducing stress. This is because people today are under a lot of stress and pressure
due to this competitiveness of today’s society. By doing arts activities,
people can forget about their stress and be refreshed, which helps people do
their work more efficiently. Also, working more efficiently, the economy gets
better. According to a study done by JYP university, people who works after
doing arts activities can produce items 80% per hour more than people who just
focus on working. Also, according to another study, if people can produce more
items, the economy of a country will increase due to increasing of trades. This
clearly shows that arts help people to relieve their stress, which is helpful
for the economy.
In conclusion, arts can
reduce stress and parks improve the economy of local communities. Also,
scientific research is already supported financially. In this regard, I strongly
insist that governments have to spend less money on scientific research than
arts and parks. |