People always have numerous beautiful imaginations about the future. Granted, some of them are unrealistic,but, in my view, one is reasonable—“after 20 years, people will have more leisure time. ”
Accompanied by thedevelopment of technology, people, more exactly, housewives can be relieved from boring and repeated housework. For example, due to the invention of the automatic washer, nowadays, housewives do not need to wash the family’s clothes by hand any more.Therefore, they own more free time to have fun. For the same reason, I believe in the near future, given more and more useful machines will appear and offer help to people, people will have more free time to enjoy their lives.
Today, in working place, there are still lots of people who are doing very simple, repeated, low-technologyand and heavy jobs, such as the Chinese manufacture workers in Foxconn, and consequently, having extremely poor salaries. Admittedly, their working conditions are partly determined by their lack of knowledge and necessary skills, however, I think the major cause is that today’s society still need these guys and even though it seems that their jobs are totally easy, their jobs are the foundation of the whole working ecosystem. Considering this, I think, as the technology developing, it is possible that some kinds of machines, such as auto robot, are able to replace human beings to do these low-technology jobs.Therefore, not only will the whole society become more effective and efficient,but also these people will have more opportunities to receive education and getbetter jobs. In common sense, better jobs mean brain working, getting rid of heavy physical jobs and having more free time.
Some people claims that efficient doesn’t equal to more free time. I admit that sometimes their claims are right, but according to the history of human beings,i insist that the equation does work out. As the technology developing and humans entering the informationage, people can make use of less time to produce enough means of production,and consequently, the qualities of people’s lives are becoming better. More and more people can afford delicious food, warm house and fashion clothes, and the definition of highest standard of life has changed. More people would like to pursue more free time to relax and enjoy lives instead of earning more money. Taking my family for an example. when i was young girl, my father worked all day ,even without holiday, to feed my brother and me. However, as time changing and the living quality improving, now,my dad prefers scarificing some income in order to spend more time with us.
In conclusion, based on the analysis about the benefits of the convenient that the development of technology can offer human beings in housework, jobs, and living quality,I support the idea that people will own more free time in the next 20 years.
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