▶ Your Answer : Some people
think that people are less happier and satisfied compared to the past. However,
I disagree with the statement. There are two reasons. First, thanks to the
advance of technology, people these days can be happier than the past. Second,
what matters for people in the past was to make the ends meet.
To begin with,
thanks to the advance of communication and transportation technologies,
people's lives become more convenient so people these days are happier than
people in the past. Regarding to communication technology, they can now enjoy
chats with others and learn about what they want to know easily. These makes
people's lives are more energetic and satisfied compared to the past. For
instance, by using internet, now they can talk and share photos with family
members or friends wherever they are. In the past, people should write mails
and wait the reply for many days. Moreover, by watching shared video in
YouTube, people can gain knowledge that is needed in their lives or that people
are interested in. As described in this example, by filling people's desire
with advanced technologies, people these days are happier than people in the
past.
On top of that,
people in the past must be worried about living issue and this issue increased
stress that people received. In contrast to present, people struggled to make
the ends meet. The productivity of food resources in the past was much lower
than that at the present. Farmers were often failed to meet demand of food
resources due to weather conditions or harmful insects. The research conducted
by Seoul Agriculture Center can be a compelling evidence of the claim. The researchers
investigated the crop yields for few decades in Korea to determine the
relationship between agriculture and people's lives. The result was intriguing.
As the crop yield has increased with the flow of time, the people's lives
become more affluent. Moreover, stress level they get for living issue become
decreased.
To sum up,
taking the benefits from the advance of the technologies and living issues in
the past, people are happier and satisfied compared to the past. For these
reasons, I disagree with the statement.
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