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Many people think that it is easier to succeed nowadays than it was in the past. However, I strongly disagree with these people. The most important reasons are that few people had the opportunity of being educated and also that people’s activities were restricted to one place.
To begin with, people had few opportunities to get education in the past. As a result, anyone who had a little bit of academic backgrounds was highly respected no matter how his behaviors were like. Even if he was rude, many ignored it because they thought god has allowed him to act so since he was so intelligent. As a result, smart people were honored as successors of god and gained ultimate power over a community of people. On the other hand, more people get chances of educations, which led people to thinking that academic backgrounds couldn’t be solely used as a standard for success, and made people look for other criteria such as ability to get along with other people. In fact, 80 percent of the clients in California were looking for employees with not only good academic backgrounds, but also with a specific amount of Community Service Hours according to a survey.
Besides, people’s activities were limited to a certain areas because the means of transportations were not as developed as it is now. Therefore, ones looking for success only had to acknowledged by people living in that area, not by people in other areas of the country. Contrary to the past conditions, people move a lot, or their information can be sent around very easily with development of communication technology such as the Internet. Thus, if someone is approved by people in an area, he can be disapproved by people from other areas. In fact, according to historic records and surveys, ratio of people who wanted to succeed to the people who actually succeeded decreased from 90 percent to 60 percent. This shows that there are less people succeeding now than in the past.
To conclude, few people could be educated in the past, and people in the past only had to be recognized by people in his or her township while people nowadays have to be approved by more people. Hence, I think that it was easier to succeed in the past that it is in the past.