Question: Countries are becoming more and more similar because people are able to buy the same products anywhere in the world. Do you think this is a positive or negative development?

These days with an increase in technology as well as production resources many

products

like electronic devices, food materials, clothes are being available across the world. In my perspective,

this

global availability of resources is a very positive development as it helps people purchase whatever they want from their own

places

instead

of importing from other

places

which usually involves a lot of expenses as well as efforts.

To begin

with, in the previous decades, procuring even some simple

products

like chocolates used to be a big deal. With the rapid change in technology and due to the global exposure of brands and growth in imports & exports, nowadays we are able to purchase most of the foreign

products

at our own

places

.

This

is due to the fact that businesses have been expanding their stores overseas to increase their revenue.

For Example

- Apple stores, previously when Apple

first

launched their electronic devices, their purchases were mostly confined to the US. Later in some years, Apple

products

are now available across many

countries

. I still remember people asking their friends and relatives to buy & send the branded phones to India. Apart from the technological equipment, there are many other things which are now available across the world. Some of them are medical equipment, vaccinations, food materials, perfumes, cosmetics and so on. Importing

products

from other

countries

is usually a costly affair and it

also

takes a lot of time.

Instead

of all these, businesses started purchasing things in bulk from other

places

and are selling them in their own

places

. Even though

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there will be a change in pricing,

this

is generally helpful to many of us. The

countries

economy is

also

benefitted from the taxes leveraged. With the increasing use of the internet, there is a surge in online shopping as well. Now, most of the big businesses easily

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with international courier services and ship their

products

quickly. I myself sometimes purchase cosmetics from the international stores in the US seamlessly.

However

, there are

also

some cons associated with

this

change. In the name of the trade, many people are engaging in illegal transportation of harmful substances like drugs amidst other useful materials.

This

leads to very disastrous effects. Care must be taken by the vigilance and other authorities to make sure harmful substances aren't transported across the

countries

. To sum it up, the global availability of the resources majorly has many benefits and is useful for both the citizens as well as the country as a whole & it must be encouraged