▶ 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 the government
should spend less money on arts and making parks for the following two reasons.
First, governments do not have to spend a lot of money on supporting
scientific research. Also, parks and gardens help to increase the
economy of local communities. Lastly, the arts can make people 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 did not
visit my town, which made us be more difficult economically. Also, people
tended to move to the big city because there were not 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, the 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 art 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 work after doing art 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 trades. This clearly shows that the 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.
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