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In today's world, people are purchasing more than what they need. Is this a positive or a negative trend? Give your opinion with reasons and include any relevant examples from your own knowledge or experience.

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Due to
drastic change
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drastic changes
the drastic change
 in
economy
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the economy
 the purchasing power of people
have increased
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has increased
, leading to over purchase or purchasing of non-useful things. I ruminate that we should spend according to our income and save money for rainy days.
Firstly
, lets look at some of the positive effects. As per census - 2013, per capita income of urban areas have increased
upto
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up to
 25
% which
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%, which
 means that people are earning enough money for living. And the positive effect is their access to luxury and better standards of living.
For example
, they can have their own house, car etc.
which
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Which
 was earlier in urban areas was a far away dream.
However
, the tendency to purchase more comes with
lot
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a lot
lots
 of negative effects. One of the major effect is people tend to spend more than their
pocket leaving
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pocket, leaving
 them with major debts and no savings. Another significant reason is young children are spoiled with excess luxury.
Recent survey
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Recent surveys
A recent survey
 in various metro cities showed that
percentage
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the percentage
 of children of parents from
upper middle class band
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the upper middle class band
 prone to various diseases like obesity, diabetes is more than other children. Parents without realizing the side effects buys their children all latest gadgets and gaming equipments which confines them in
house
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a house
the house
 with no inertia leading to
such
 life threatening diseases.
Nevertheless
, we can overcome these negative effects if earning parents start planning and confine their spending to
certain
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a certain
 extend every month.
Also
, government can support by building more activity centres in various
society
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societies
 encouraging children to leave their equipments and play games involving physical activities. I doctrine that these initiatives would definitely bring negative effects of over purchasing down.

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