A new Pew Research Center survey finds people worldwide are divided on whether life is better today than it was 50 years ago. Economic strength tends to predict greater satisfaction, but not always.
The first chart shows the estimates for the share of the world population living in extreme poverty. In 1820, only a tiny elite enjoyed higher standards of living, while the vast majority of
A/N: For our homework in English we had to write a composition under the title "Life is much harder than it is today". Obviously this is what I wrote :D And I stand by it 100 percent! I know life sucks and all and it's not easy but it was MUCH harder in the past! Maybe one of my favorite quotes will explain my way of thinking: " Life sucks, but
Dec 7, 2017. The Pew Research Center recently asked 43,000 respondents in 38 countries whether life is better today than 50 years ago. Back in 1967, the Cold War was tense, the United States was
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The more educated are more likely to say life is better. In more than half the countries polled, people with more education say that, for people like them, life is better than it was a half-century ago. The educational divide on whether life is better is greatest in Poland and Peru (both 19 percentage points).
And perhaps nothing makes that clearer than the average life expectancy of the past relative to now. In 1558, a person born in England could expect to live to the ripe old age of 22. 22! That was the life expectancy back then. That didn't really change much over the next few hundred years. The average life expectancy never even cracked 50
bU9up. Cite This Matthew Buckley, 2017, September 7. Why Does the Past Seem Better Than The Present?. Psychreg on Positivity & Lifestyle. You look to the past with a sense of certainty that the present canât provide As you experience more, it takes more to wowâ It wasnât as easy to engage in social comparison in the past Your perspective of the past has shifted Takeaways Reading Time 3 minutesI wish there was a way to know youâre in the good old days before youâve actually left them.â Itâs a quote from Andy Bernard, a character from The Office, that resonates with a lot of people. For one reason or another, we often perceive that our past is better, or was more enjoyable than our present is. But truthfully, more often than not, the past wasnât actually better or more enjoyable; itâs just that we seem to remember it that way, and this occurs for a variety of look to the past with a sense of certainty that the present canât provideWhen you reflect on your past, youâre able to look back with a complete sense of certainty of what is going to happen next. You might look back to some fun times with friends, or a professional accomplishment, and reminisce about those fun times knowing full well with the benefit of hindsight how it was going to play out. But in the present moment, you canât do this because life is full of uncertainties, sources of discomfort, and crave a sense of certainty in our lives. We want to know that our partner will love us forever, that weâll get that dream job that we covet and are striving for, and that weâll always have a roof over our head. But unfortunately, thereâs no way for someone to promise us any of these with 100 per cent certainty that any of these will happen, and that can be scary. But you need to be able to embrace this uncertainty, because rarely if ever, will something be guaranteed in your you experience more, it takes more to wowâ When youâre younger, itâs more common for you to experience things for the first time, and those initial experiences set benchmarks for your next set of experiences. This can create expectations, and it can also lead you to inadvertently comparing current experiences to prior experiences. This can lead to you getting caught up in the expectation gap or the comparison gap. Does this mean that the current moment isnât fun? No, not at all, it just means that youâre comparing the current moment to one from the past that might have wowedâ you a bit more. So instead of comparing the present to the past, simply engage in some binary thinking and ask yourself Am I enjoying the present moment? Yes or no?â If yes, then youâre golden. If no, then find something that will be able to help you answer yesâ to this goes without saying that we live in the social media age. Social media sites such as Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram either werenât as populated or didnât even exist ten years ago. While itâs hard to break a habit, you do need to minimise your social comparison tendencies because life isnât a competition among others, but rather itâs you competing against yourself side note Iâm not advocating that you eliminate social media usage from your life, Iâm just suggesting that you remind yourself why you use social media and that you have a clear purpose for using social media. Focus on what youâre doing, and whatâs bringing you a sense of joy, happiness, and fulfilment because your purpose in life isnât to outdo others, but rather itâs to live a fulfilling life of your perspective of the past has shiftedAs you get older and you gain more life experience, the way you perceive your past changes. As you mature, you begin to recognise the life lessons that youâve learned through your past experiences, and this can influence the way you look back at your past. Itâs very common for someone to look back at prior stressors with a mentality of That actually wasnât so bad after allâ and have a new-found confidence that they can handle it if they were to face them again. However, that doesnât necessarily mean that you experienced the past so favourably as you experienced those stressors first-hand the first time around, it just means that youâd have more confidence now if you were faced with a similar able to be comfortable with discomfort. You might not be able to perceive the present moment with the same sense of certainty that reflect on the past with, but you can improve your ability to be comfortable with the discomfort and uncertainties that the present moment might throw your comparison. Youâre not here to outdo others, youâre here to live a fulfilling life of your your expectations. Not everything you do will be the best thing youâve ever done or the best thing youâve ever accomplished, and thatâs fine. Life is going to have highlight reel moments, and some less than stellar in binary thinking. Shift your focus from the quality of what youâre doing to the fact that youâre simply doing it. *** Image credit FreepikMatthew Buckley is an organisational psychologist. He holds a masterâs degree in organisational psychology from the University of New articles we publish on Psychreg are here to educate and inform. Theyâre not meant to take the place of expert advice. 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In my last article about how life was so much better 40 years ago, I promised I would even things out and talk about how things have actually improved in the past few decades since I was a kid. I donât want anyone thinking Iâm a crotchety old guy. So here goes â seven things that make life better now than âback in the good old daysâ 1. Healthier choices in food. Health food has become mainstream. You donât have to go to some out of the way âhealth food shopâ run by âhippiesâ to get what you need. All the main grocery chains now have entire sections dedicated just to non-GMO, organic food. âFree-rangeâ is now part of our vocabulary. There are entire grocery chains that are dedicated only to offering food that is not loaded up with pesticides and hormones. Even some restaurant chains like Panera and Chipotle make the effort to serve food that is entirely free of preservatives and other harmful additives. Businesses are doing this to respond to popular demand. More and more Americans desire natural foods that are a major part of the answer to the diseases they are constantly fighting. Sadly, not enough Americans are ditching toxic fast food, but at least there is a good trend toward healthier options. Seven Ways Life Was Better 40 Years Ago 2. Online shopping. This can cut either way, I know. I feel very sorry for businesses like Sears, Penney, and Kmart. I grew up with those brands. âSears has everything!â went the commercial. My father was a Sears manager for almost 20 years. And who can forget the ubiquitous K-Mart âblue light specialsâ and âthank for shopping at Kmartâ? However, these companies have not kept up with the new phenomenon of online shopping. I did not think I would like it at first, but this old buzzard now knows how to navigate the Internet and get some great deals as well as any teenager with a credit card well, almost. I donât have to fight through traffic, I donât have to fight for a spot in the parking lot, I donât have to stand in line. I just click and buy and wait a few days and my package of goodies is at my door. Magic. I still go shopping in malls, but not as much. Walmart Takes the Fight to Amazon for Online Shopping Customers 3. Advances in medical science. I had quintuple bypass heart surgery almost six years ago. Medical science has continued to progress ⊠to the point that my surgery was pretty much routine. Thank God! When they announced I would have to have it, we were all stunned, of course. No one thought for a second, however, that I would die. Such surgery has become commonplace, and in most cases about as close to âguaranteed successâ as you can get. Think about all the advances weâve had in the past 40 years. In that time, the MRI was invented and it has been used all around the world. What an amazing machine! We have improvements in organ transplants and bionic limbs. We have seen advances in cancer treatment â so much so that if some cancers are discovered early enough the patient has great odds at surviving and beating it entirely. What a breakthrough laparoscopic surgery is! Just 25 years ago, the standard surgery for something like appendicitis required quite a cut across the lower right quadrant of the torso and a recovery of two or three days in the hospital. Now, with laparoscopic surgery, they just poke two holes in you, yank that old appendix out, and you go home that afternoon! You can tell I am not a medical doctor, but I have seen many patients go home the day of the surgery because of this wonderful treatment. These articles from the Cleveland Clinic, CNN, and Health24 detail the advances in medical science over the past few decades, and what we can expect in the years to come. 4. Computer-generated graphics. Remember the original Star Trek? I do. I loved it! I thought the coolest thing about the show was the opening scene when the Enterprise whooshed across the screen in one second! Remember that scene in the original Star Wars 1977 when Han Solo put the Millennial Falcon in hyperdrive and all those stars just stretched and everyone in the audience just leaned back in their seats like gravity was actually sucking them backwards? Man, that stuff just blew us away. However, all those special effects are kid stuff compared to what computer graphics can do today. In movies today you can see ancient cities like Rome or Athens look like they have been brought back to life, or entirely fictitious civilizations as in Avatar look like you could reach out and touch them. What do you do when you donât have enough soldiers in costumes to reenact a Napoleonic battle? You just use computer graphics and create a whole army of realistic soldiers to stand behind your actors. Pretty soon maybe we wonât even need Hollywood actors! Gone are the days when we saw Captain Kirk wrestling a guy dressed up in a dragon suit. 5. More media. We used to have ONLY CBS, NBC, and ABC. That was it. Take it or leave it. The âbig threeâ had a monopoly on the news and how they could mold it or manufacture it and serve it up to us. CNN entered the picture in the 1980s. Today, we not only have Fox News and MSNBC joining the mainstream media, but we also have talk radio most notably Rush Limbaugh and Sean Hannity. Through the Internet, we also have outlets such as CRTV, Ben Shapiroâs The Daily Wire, The Daily Beast, PJ Media hooray!!!!, Steven Crowderâs website, POLITICO, The Hill, the whole span of social media, and pretty much every kind of journalistic outlet you can imagine unless Google and Facebook censor you. There are YouTube channels galore, and you can go to any kind of news source you want instantly. Tired of getting the same fake news every day from the same sources? There is an alternative media nowadays that did not exist 40 years ago. Even with certain tech giants pulling the plug on news outlets they deem unworthy, we still have a greater variety in media than we did a generation or two ago. 6. The Soviet Union is gone! Think about that. If youâre having a really bad day, just remember how one of the most evil, murderous regimes in history collapsed on itself and bit the dust. That will make you smile. One of the happiest days of my life was December 25, 1991. On the day that millions of Christians celebrate the birth of Jesus Christ, the blood-soaked hammer and sickle of the USSR was hauled down over the Kremlin. I never ⊠ever ⊠thought I would live to see that day. Man, when I was growing up, we were honestly scared to death of the Soviet Union. We thought they were going to win! Throughout the 1970s we saw the fall of Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia. We saw nations in Africa taken over by Soviet allies Ethiopia, Mozambique, Angola. Nicaragua was ruled by Soviet-backed communists. Then they invaded Afghanistan. It looked pretty grim forty years ago, didnât it? But the Soviet Union caved in on itself. I know, I know ⊠plenty of people will tell me that communism is making a comeback here in the and we have plenty of Leftist criminals in our government seemingly âgetting away with it.â We also have other challenges from jihadists in our midst and narco-terrorists coming here from Latin America. Yes, these are some mighty serious things. Just remember how the USSR was defeated, though. The way things are now, they wonât be this way forever. Just like the Soviet communists were swept away, so will the modern version be swept away in due time. I believe that right will prevail. Keep looking up, folks. 7. Instant communication. Instant communication could go both ways too, couldnât it? Sometimes I wonder if Iâm too attached to my phone or iPad. I remember the olden days of rotary dial phones and long phone cords. Now I see rotary dial phones in museums and my kids ask, âHow do you dial on that thing, Daddy?â If you dialed and no one was there to answer, all you got was a busy signal. There were no answering machines, no voicemail. Today, however, I can call ⊠and leave a message, or send a text! How convenient! I know that the text has been sent, and the person I sent it to will get back to me soon hopefully. With my phone, I have GPS. This has been such a help when navigating through unfamiliar cities. In the ancient world, we had to get out the big Rand McNally map and try to find the major roads in the cities. The GPS in my phone is so much easier. Plus, I can call anybody I want whenever I want. I save so much time while driving now by making my calls on the way to or from work. If I have a question about some issue of the day, or if I just want to know the five-day forecast, I just type or speak into my phone and instantly thereâs the answer! I love it! The days of the Dick Tracy âtwo-way wrist TVâ or the Star Trek âflip phoneâ are here! In fact, technology today has far surpassed what science fiction thought we would have by now. Hereâs a great article about Star Trek gadgets that are no longer science fiction now. Of course, there are plenty of problems with all this advancement in communication technology. People get too absorbed in their phones, people forget how to socialize, there are tracking devices in your phone â all those are legitimate concerns. I just thank God, however, that when there is an emergency, and I need to call the police or an ambulance, I can instantly get them on the phone I am carrying in my pocket. Even with all this, I have barely scratched the surface. I could have talked about the great advances in automobiles or energy exploration or space exploration or the great abilities of the military. I could have given details on how crime has actually gone DOWN over the past few decades and we are actually safer across the board, believe it or not. Maybe all that is for a future article. Just look around and think about some of these great things that have happened, smile, and be grateful.
It is believed by some that life has become better than in the earlier centuries. While I agree with this statement, I also believe that some of the aspects were better in the past. It is undeniable that life has improved as compared to the past. To begin with, the healthcare facilities have developed in such a way that life expectancy is considerably increased more than years ago. For instance, many life-threatening diseases, such as cancers or heart attacks can be treated by advanced technology. Additionally, due to globalization, every corner of the world has become accessible. Communication is easier these days, as one can now communicate in the remotest part of the world with a few clicks. People can do many activities while sitting at home. Additionally, the advent of technology has also contributed to the betterment of peopleâs life. The ease of access to needs like healthcare, education, entertainment, and transportation is better than years ago. These technologies can be used for entertainment, productivity, or relaxation. Besides, people enjoy all modern amenities, such as air conditioners, modular kitchens, and high-speed internet in modern cities. Admittedly, a century ago people probably had a peaceful life. At that time, the proportion of crimes was significantly low. For example, individuals usually lived in joint families regardless of burglary, kidnapping, or terrorist attacks, which are common incidences these days. What is more, in earlier times, family members were emotionally attached to each other, but this is not the case at present. To conclude, life has improved significantly these days than 100 years ago. Although people were happy in the past years, I firmly believe that modernization of the world has improved the living standard of by on Fri Jul 23 2021Unauthorized use and/or duplication of this material without express and written permission from this siteâs author and/or owner is strictly prohibited. Excerpts and links may be used, provided that full and clear credit is given to Writing9 with appropriate and specific direction to the original to do next Look at other essays Needless to say, English is a global language and one of the most used speech because of which it is extremely important for everyone to learn it. However, preserving local languages is also crucial to keep a culture live in an ever-changing world; society is changing in significant ways. A clear example can be seen that people are shifting from rural to urban for their purposes of job or study and living. Thatâs why there is a decreasing number of trees in urban areas. So some citizens believe that urban planners should build more green spaces instead of building new houses. Before arriving at my opinion, both sides of the argument will be is considered by some that being a university graduate is the key to securing a good job, while there are others who think that it is better to have experience and soft skills. In my opinion, I believe that having university education is essential for academic jobs while soft skills and experience are more useful in given line graph illustrates the proportion of United Kingdom youth consuming vegetarian food between 1960 and 2020. According to the information percentage of UK adolescents following a vegetarian diet reached the highest point in media is a place where people meet, interact and share their thoughts. Different types of social media websites are available for the general public. Although there are many advantages of this kind of interaction places, there are some drawbacks also. In this essay we will discuss both the positive and the negative sides of social media.
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ï»żLife now is better than it was 100 years ago. To what extent do you agree or disagree with this statement? Give reasons for your answer and include any relevant examples from your own knowledge or is a band IELTS essay on this topic submitted by one of our students. Send us your writing samples for a free band score estimate or get a detailed analysis of your writing for a IELTS essay sampleCompared to life as it was 100 years ago, some people argue that it has greatly improved at present. While I agree with this idea to a great extent, I also believe that many aspects of the life were better in the a doubt, life is a lot better now. A good example of this is the greater longevity that humans enjoy today. This means people spend much longer on the planet as compared to their ancestors. Much of the global population has access to improved health care systems and education. People are much more informed about the importance of sanitation and this also adds years to their quality of life has also improved over the decades. There have been no major wars in the last 50 years. People spend more time with family now than before. There are new methods of entertainment. As the world has seen the shift from the industrial revolution to service industries, more people are now free during the weekends, when they can enjoy these new modes of entertainment. With globalization, almost every corner of the planet has become accessible and each year has seen an increase in the number of tourists around the world. Globalization has also enabled people to access technologies from around the world. These technologies can be used for entertainment, productivity or relaxation. Because of the aforementioned facts, we can definitely say that the life has changed in last 100 years for the betterment of the there is a downside to this progress. The quality of water and air has decreased over the years because of pollution. Many species of birds and animals have disappeared from the planet due to human conclude, life has improved greatly as human race has made significant progress in most aspects of the life in the last 100 years. However, the same advancements have also adversely affected our life and planet in the form of pollution, contamination, and global warming. People need to ensure that new technologies benefit the planet as well, so that we will have an even better world after 100 you have an essay on this topic? Submit it below in the comments for a free band score LinksIELTS Practice TestsBand 9 Essay SamplesBand 9 Letter SamplesBand 8 Letter Samples
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