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Discuss: Nowadays, people are encouraged to buy co nsumer good . Is this trend

benef ic ial to indiv idual and econom y or not?

Word co unt: 456

Timing: 15 minutes

Wri t ten B y Pham Thi L e Na

Good

- stimulate economy

- meet daily demand

- encourage creativity

Bad

- reduce saving

- be hazardous to environment and our heath

- assimilate people's thinking

We all need goods from basic to the most luxurious. Some people claim that people should

be spurred to buy more consumer goods to develop economy while others claim that it can

reduce personal saving. My essay will discuss both sides of the issue toward individuals and

society.

It is, first, argued that a higher amount of consumer consumption is beneficial for social

development. The more people buy goods, the more economy thrives. With more tax

collected from industries and daily spending of each individual, governments have money to

upgrade facilities and invest in key projects. However, can the society really develop when

people overspend their budget? As a result of the fact that intensive campaigns ubiquitously

appear in the market to imbue people with the idea of purchasing consumer goods more,

people's personal savings are reduced significantly, heralding their early bankruptcy.

America is a telling country where consumer good spending exceeds personal savings,

leading to a current financial crisis in 2007.

Equally important, to some extent, people's consumption of consumer goods is the action of

self-satisfaction. No sooner do people work assiduously than they should kill their stress by

burying them into the amidst of practical commodities. The appearance of goods from body

soaps, perfumes, shampoo to food packages really satiates their desire and facilitates their

lives amazingly. Basically, we all want to enjoy, and the more we buy, the more companies

are supposed to rankle their brains to come up with more convenient items to meet such

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growing demand. Turn back to the example of America, a nation where witnesses the non-

stop refinement of products in terms of design, material and price by dint of its citizens' thirst

for more high-quality consumer goods. Nevertheless, this trend might put our environment in

danger. Can you imagine how the world turns out to be with tons of waste released into the

atmosphere on a daily basis? Plastic boxes and solid waste are enough to hurt environment

to the point that the number of people suffering contaminated air and other respiration-

related diseases is increasing. Even worse, natural resources are depleted cruelly and

ceaselessly to catch up with people's greed for cheap consumer goods. Psychologically

speaking, the idea of instilling into people the desire to buy more and more consumer

products can deprive people of their own inner voice. Not all of us want to spend more than

save and purchase the same products televised on media as well. While some are crazy for

the latest version of consumer products, others are interested in their plan to conserve

natural environment. Please do not assimilate people into the same mindset: to have more

consumer goods. Save the world and save our soul- the message that environmentalists

actually love to spread.

New words

1. conserve

2. deprive somebody of something

3. assimilate

4. purchase

5. up-gradation

6. the mindset