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Some people believe that we have too many choices these days. To what extent to you agree or disagree?

#people #choices
In the modern world of highly developed technology and unlimited
opportunities
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 there is an opinion that people are given an excessive number of choices. It may sound
negatively
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,
however
, there are
also
 benefits in having a lot of options to choose from in different spheres. In
this
essay
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 I will express how much I agree with the given statement. I will
additionally
 state the reasons why I partially disagree with it.
To begin
 with, the current generation really has an opportunity to decide what to buy, where to study,
who
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 to communicate with.
This
 mostly has become possible due to the development of the Internet and online services.
However
, it
also
 led to the distribution of consumerism. If speaking about fast fashion,
for example
, a lot of fashionable and trendy clothes are available to ordinary consumers, who could not afford them several decades ago.
However
, nowadays
such
 outfits can be easily bought at quite moderate prices. So, it often happens that those who follow trends purchase too much, often throwing old garments as waste. Another example of unlimited choices we are given is in the field of online education. In the pre-Internet
era
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 we could select a teacher only from the specialists who lived in our vicinity, but now we can surf the net and find a professional to teach us from
from
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any country or any educational institution, where online courses are available. To conclude with, I agree that nowadays we are offered a plethora of choices.
Nevertheless
, I consider that it is quite a positive tendency, especially when representatives of different nations worldwide think twice before buying another dress or making some important decision in their lives.
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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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