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Many people nowadays live in societies where consumer goods are relatively cheap Do you thing the advantages of this outweigh the disadvantages?

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Nowadays, lots of
people
 live in a world where consumer
goods
 are quite cheap. In my opinion, in
this
 situation, the advantages do not outweigh the
disadvantages
.
Moreover
,
this
 practice of buying cheap
products
 has lots of
disadvantages
. One of the
disadvantages
 is environmental pollution, the other one can be a waste of
money
 on unnecessary
things
, rather than investing
money
 in something more important. The only advantage that I can see in doing
this
 practice is that poor
people
 can afford to buy more
things
 for their life. And
this
 will make their everyday life easier and more comfortable by allowing them to buy cheap
goods
. Moving on to the
disadvantages
, I think that the main disadvantage is environmental pollution because lots of
products
 are really cheap and some
people
 have the tendency to buy them without thinking about the consequences of all of those
products
 on the environment after their usage. The cheapest
products
 are, the more enquired it will be. Society has the tendency to buy
things
 even if they will not use them, but they think that all of these
goods
 will make their life easier.
Moreover
,
people
 do not take into account that they waste
money
 on unnecessary
things
. And from there results the second main disadvantage, and
this
 is that
people
 waste
money
 on unnecessary
things
 rather than investing
this
money
 in some sort of business, or just making a donation and helping helpless
people
 or animals. Conclude I can say that before somebody decides to buy unnecessary
goods
 they should think very carefully, or at least on all of these
products
 government should apply a tax on recycling. As well I think that should be an advertising policy that will be shown the result of buying
things
 that
people
 don’t need for nature and animals.
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