Do you agree or disagree that progress is always good?

Do you agree or disagree that progress is always good? Use specific reasons and examples to support your answer.

Since ancient times mankind has developed very dramatically. Now we’re able to exploit full power of the modern technologies which make our life easier: computers, automobiles, medicine etc. However, I believe that progress has not only positive consequences for mankind, but also negative ones.

On one hand, progress creates for us some economy impacts. Many nations have built thousands plants which create air and water pollution. This makes live of people in some industrialized cities very unpleasant. For example, I was born in a very highly industrialized city. We have many factories and plants. Because of these plants average duration of life in my home city is roughly 60 years. Due to progress people now have problems with globalization. Globalization is a process of unification of nations in the world. It can have some negative effects. Let’s look at an example. There is a small economy, which produces some goods, like livestock. They can be quite successful. But when this country becomes the part of a larger economy it will become unable to win competition with some worldwide livestock companies. This will make the nation poorer, and standards of life will become lower.

On the other hand, mankind development has brought us some problems in the social sphere. People today have less free time, than, for example, ten ages ago. This is the result of the world economy growth. We need to maintain our highly developed society, and this maintenance takes most of our time. For example, in ancient times people worked only for several hours a week, and they didn’t have any serious tasks except hunting. Now we’ve become very busy. Most people cannot afford even an hour of relaxation a day. Because of progress people nowadays have become unhappier. This is the consequence of the fact, that they have little free time to enjoy the life. We all need to achieve something we are always running somewhere, instead of stopping and enjoying the beauty of life as it is.

All in all, progress has brought to mankind not only benefits, but also some negative effects. These negative effects encompass problems in economic and social sphere, which we couldn’t even imagine to have in ancient times.

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Do you agree or disagree that progress is always good? Use specific reasons and examples to support your answer.

Since ancient times mankind has developed very dramatically. Now we’re able to exploit full power of the modern technologies which make our LIVES easier: computers, automobiles, medicine etc. However, I believe that progress has not only positive consequences for mankind, but also negative ones.

On THE one hand, progress creates for us some economICAL impacts. Many nations have built thousands OF plants which create air and water pollution. This makes THE liveS of people in some industrialized cities very unpleasant. For example, I was born in a very highly industrialized city. We have many factories and plants. Because of these plants THE average duration of life in my home city is roughly 60 years. Due to progress, people now have problems with globalization. Globalization is a process of unification of ALL nations in the world. It can have some negative effects. Let’s look at an example; There is a small economy which produces some goods, like livestock. They can be quite successful. But when this country becomes the part of a larger economy it will become unable to win AGAINST competition with some worldwide livestock companies. This will make the nation poorer, and standards of life will become lower.

On the other hand, mankind’S development has brought us some problems in the social sphere. People today have less free time, than for example, ten ages ago. This is the result of the worldS economIC growth. We need to maintain our highly developed society, and this maintenance takes most of our time. For example, in ancient times people worked only for several hours a week, and they didn’t have any serious tasks except hunting. Now we’ve become very busy. Most people cannot afford even an hour of relaxation a day. Because of progress people nowadays have become unhappier. This is the consequence of the fact that they have little free time to enjoy theIR LIVES. We all need to achieve something(.) We are always running somewhere, instead of stopping and enjoying the beauty of life as it is.

All in all, progress has brought to mankind not only benefits, but also some negative effects. These negative effects encompass problems in economic and social sphereS, which we couldn’t even imagine to have in ancient times.

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