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Some people believe that nowadays we have too many choices. To what extent do you agree or disagree?

#people #choices
In the past,
people
 led very restrictive
lives
, they took the profession of their fathers, ate the foods locally available and lived in the places their families had lived since immemorial time.
This
 has changed in the
modern day
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, as
people
 have much more freedom to pursue whatever they want to do,
however
, some believe that
this
 is not a positive outcome for individuals.
This
 is a shortsighted outlook and fails to recognise the benefits of increased numbers of options in our
lives
. When
people
 decry the amount of freedom modern
people
 possess, it is usually because they are fundamentally unhappy about their own
lives
 and decision-making processes. They want someone else to make these choices for them
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 because they are unwilling or unequipped to do so for themselves.
This
 makes it not a problem of innumerable choices, but simply because of their own personal defects. One cannot deny the social and economic benefits of the choices present in
modern day
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 society.
People
 can pursue whatever education or profession they wish to and
this
 alone has significant effects on social mobility, as well as personal happiness. If someone truly believes they are unhappy with the power they have over their own
lives
, they have probably not experienced the alternative. While some disaffected individuals may believe that they suffer from the pain of having too many decisions to make in their
lives
, their belief is probably ill-founded in their own distress.
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Topic Vocabulary:
  • overwhelmed
  • decision fatigue
  • paralysis by analysis
  • consumerism
  • globalization
  • personal autonomy
  • market saturation
  • option overload
  • decision-making process
  • psychological well-being
  • buyer's remorse
  • customization
  • trade-offs
  • minimalism
  • information superhighway
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