▶ Your Answer :
It is controversial to say the life in modern
society is more comfortable and easier than the past. Some people might think
that it is indeed easier and convenient to live in the modern society than the
previous time. However, in my view, the life these days is much harder to
manage than the one in the past.
To begin with, people in the modern world
are seriously suffering from finding jobs due to the rapid industrialization and
technological development. As much of the jobs are getting done by the machines,
there are simply not enough job positions for people to work for their living.
This leads the high rate of competition on the job market, which makes the life
of people in the current society much more difficult to live than ever. For
example, according to a news article published by the Korean News early this
year, almost two hundreds of people will be fired by Lotte – a conglomerate in
Korea, this summer as the executive council decided to adopt an atomization program
to run its factory. As such, people these days compete with not only other
people, but also machines for their jobs, which shows that the life in the
current society is tougher than before.
Secondly, people these days need to
consider a lot of possible options when making decisions, which is also
mentally demanding. In other words, there are multiple other ways to go for one
decision, as the society becomes richer and freer than before. For example,
people these days are not obliged to get married. They can choose one way out
of many options, such as becoming a couple with/without marriage, single
mom/single dad, or just single. For making a wise choice for yourself, you
should know what type of person you are and what kind of life style you want to
pursue, which is indeed a difficult question to answer. This is a totally
different situation when compared to the life in the past. People in our
grandparents’ generation naturally thought that they should get married at a
certain age, because there was no other option and you should follow the social
rules. Putting it differently, you did not have to make any choice on your
marital status in that time, which might have sometimes been practical because
you would not need to think too much.
To sum up, people these days have to
overcome difficulties over not only limited amounts of jobs due to the rapid
automation of the manufacturing process, but also making decisions among many
possible options in the modern society. In this regard, I think the life these
days is much more demanding to live up than the one in the past.
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