Technology developed our life a lot. Even in our home, we easily use timesaving devices. Let me give you an example. How can we eat in a short and convenient way, if we don't have enough time to cook at home? Maybe we can buy a food in a fast food restaurant. But what if there's no fast food restaurant near your house? Then, we can easily cook food using a microwave. A microwave is a useful tool for heating food and melting iced food. Like this example, timesaving devices enriched our life than before. However, is this a really good phenomenon? I would like to tell you three negative effects from those devices.
First, those devices reduced household chores – cooking, washing and even cleaning. Household chores were mostly up to mothers. Mother worked all day in house, but nowadays they don't need to do. Then, does our mother could rest more? Nope. They were forced to work more in outside. People thought it is much effective way since devices replaced former rule of mother in home, so mothers had a time to work. It forced women to work outside.
Second, it made materialism in our society. There are two reasons that I think as causes. Devices cost expensive, we need to earn money for buying them. I think it is a paradox that we work for buying those devices. Also, many people believe that those devices resolve our problems. The more we use those devices, the more we rely on them. We are forgetting wisdom of life. We rarely reflect on daily things.
The last but not least, it affects our environment. Companies produce devices to earn money. The problem is they produce devices only for high sales volume. They didn't upgrade the quality as consumers think or they advertise which means devices overflow these days. When people buy new devices, they throw devices they used before. It causes an environmental problem.
For those three reasons I mentioned above, I do not think timesaving devices made our life better. Sometimes, traditional things are much better than those of modern. Tools changed our life better, but it is too much in our life today. We need to take wisdom back to our daily life.
It was very interesting writing. I love your writing expecially at the 4th paragraph, first sentence. You said 'The last but not least' and it strongly comes to me. Also, you use word 'materialism' and 'paradox' at the the second paragraph. It is also very good point to use. But you also have to change at some rates. First your conclusion is too short. It didn't include the main point of the body. Your beginning start with very clear and good but your body are also relatively weak. So if you change both two of them, it could be much better.
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