▶ Your Answer :Every people have a different opinion with regard to their
life quality, while some people say that nowadays people are more satisfied
with their life because the world is changing so quickly, others used to say
that people’ satisfaction about their life is lower than in the past.
Personally, I believe that past life was better than current life. This is
because people do not have enough time anymore to spend with their family and
people are feeling relative deprivation because of mass media.
Firstly, people have to spend too long to adapt to the world.
To be specific, in the past, if people have proper skills or secure job, they
did not have to learn new things because those were enough to maintain their
life. However, nowadays industry is developing very quickly so that people have
to learn much more things than in the past to catch up the world changing.
Therefore, they cannot spend their time for themselves or their family.
Instead, they always need to use their time to learn new skills because if they
stop learning, they will lose their jobs and they will become an outdated
person. For example, many people are losing their occupations due to machines
are replacing people, so people have to learn new things which have not
approached to find a new occupation. Hence, people, these days need to struggle
with new skills and need to find a new job that they do not grow accustomed
rather spend their time with their family or using the time for their habit.
Second, Development of mass media incited relative
deprivation. In particular, people could satisfy their life, and their life
quality in the past. However, development of mass media ruined people’ little
happiness. People could compare themselves with their neighbors or some
vendors. But, afterwards the dissemination of mass media, everyone could watch
upper-class or celebrity’s wealthy life, and this arouses relative deprivation
in people’ mind. For instance, my grandparents always satisfied his life when
he was the 20s or 30s. However, he used to say that his life is not very good
after he got a television in his home because he realized what wealthy people’
life. He started to compare his life with rich people who showed on tv, and
this made his life sullen.
In conclusion, I firmly believe that people are not as happy
as they were in the fast. People need to concentrate on self-development
instead of concentrate on enriching their life, and they can compare their life
not to their neighbors who have a similar level of living, but rich people who
have much more assets than them. |