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ISSUE 58
题目:
"The increasingly rapid pace of life today causes more problems than it solves"
正文:
As we enjoying the efficiency and convenience the increasingly rapid pace of life brings us, it does also emission byproducts. But the byproducts couldn't shade advantages it products.
The pace of life increased as the development of productivity ever since human being emergence. Life is changing every now and then since thousands years ago. And life today is much more different with it hundreds years ago due to the industrial revolution. When chasing the original causation for increasingly life pace, we find it is the reformation of production tools. Thousands years ago only hoes were used in agriculture. Later, animals began to participate for help. Now, most labor work in agriculture has been done by machines. The revolution of tools not only let farmers free from cropland and burning sun, but also increases output per acre. Since more people could be fed by the limited land, population grows larger and competitions between individuals get fiercer. Life pace speeds up behind the pursuit of better life and the rapid competition in sharing a part of hi-tech. Hi-tech brings us what we can't even imagine before, like the cell phone, computer, magnetic cards, and etc. And greater convenience and efficiency comes after them. Thanks to e-commercial, we can buy whatever we want by simply clicking bottoms on computer in seconds, which costs several days shopping in plaza before. We could also chatting whenever we want online, which was difficult before since it's not that easy to gather two people together. The efficiency of rapid life pace allows us to accomplish work in shorter time, thus more spare time is left for personal life. The increasingly rapid pace of life due to the revolution of technology brings people more leisure time and personal space. Modern life is much more amazing than ancient one. We no longer face the challenge of survives but live.
A coin has two sides as the increasingly rapid pace of life also has byproducts which weaken the quality of life. The support of technology is a huge demand of resource. The high productivity in outcome is based on the vast consumer of income. Mine, water, air are indispensible materials of hi-tech. Mines, which costs long time to form, become fewer and fewer. Quality of water and air are worse and worse. The harm on nature worsens the environment human live and weakens the benefits of hi-tech. Physical uncomfortableness and mental stress impact modern people together. At the same time high technology creates high productivity, it also provides one with means of production a chance to exploit others. Thus, distinction between the poor and the rich get larger and larger. Hi-tech brings luxury life to the rich, at the same time endless work hour and disparity payment to the poor.
As human instinct: to fight for a better life, workaholic is everywhere today. We dare not to rest, considering others may exceed. For this point of view, the spare time hi-tech brings seems the other way. We did produce more, but the work hour does not decrease since we urge much more. Byproducts in physical and mental do weaken the quality of life, but should we blame it to the rapid pace of life?
Throw away an apple because of the core is stupid so as condemn the hi-tech because of the byproducts. Anyway, we have ways to solve those problems. To deal with the decrease of natural resource, we can exploit it scheming and searching for new energy source. To reduce the disparity of rich and poor, governments could charge more tax from the rich for building public utility for the poor. To ease the mental stress, we can educate people how to manager rest and work.
In conclusion, we have analyzed the advantages and disadvantages of increasingly rapid pace of life. We realize the enjoyment it brings as well as the byproducts it makes. The best is yet to come. A better life is still waiting us by dealing with those byproducts effectively.
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