In modern society, we have made great progresses in our life styles, so people seems to have lots of advantages from it's high technologies. However, I am skeptical about this point because our lives have been devastated and threatened by rigorous social system and social conflicts. In this point, I do not agree with the main point that modern life is easier and cozier than life when grandparents were young.
To begin with, people in modern society are distressed from their excess responsibilities in which they should support their family and survive strict societies. Although we seem to have more convenient life styles than people when lived one hundred years ago, in fact, we must be too engrossed in surviving this complex society. The fact of high rate of suicides and low level of happiness in this society will support my opinion that our likely convenient lives are indeed very stressful.
Futhermore, we faced many different kinds of social problems such as emerging of new ailments and environmental pollution. These problems make us worry about various risks. Some people argue that as technologies has been developed, our problems have been tapered. However, We should fight against new maladies and worsening environmental factors. This reality indicates that our lives reach other aspect of how we overcome these problems. In a word, although the quality of our lives skyrocket, ultimately we do not assure that our lives are better and easier than when the past.
To sum up, some people think that with assistance of better environmental merits, we are in more convenient lives. But, I do not agree this idea because our lives faced strange problems that have never existed in the past. Consequently, even though we have some advantages in this society, our lives are arid and devastating from other difficult factors as I mentioned. For this reason, I do not agree with the main point.
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