Individual greed and selfishness have been the basis of the modern society. Some people think that we must return to the older and more traditional values of respect for the family and the local community in order to create a better world to live in. To what extent do you agree or disagree?

Today, 1a luxurious lifestyleluxury lifestyle has affected 2people’s liveshumans’ living conditions fundamentally. While in the past traditional 3valuesrules were a major 4foundationbase for many communities, now people 5regardconsider money as a priority. Some believe that our ancestors had a better living situation, and I firmly agree with them.

6Undeniably, now personal factors have become the first choice for many people living across the world. One obvious example is that 7young people haveyoung have less respect for elders. 8Thinking solely the benefits, juveniles value less their parents’ attitudes compared to the past. For instance, 9when selecting a marriage partnerto select their marriage partner, 10young people in the pastthe former youth considered their 11parents’ opinions more than young people do nowparents’ opinions more than now, whereas now they have become more selfish and do not value their parents’ experience. On the other 12handside, parents have become greedy too.

Clearly, they financially 13supported their childrenbacked up their children 14more in the past than they do nowbefore more than now; however, 15many people over 65many over 65 people always prefer to have more 16savingssaving instead of helping their children. As a prime example, my grandfather supported my mother’s 17tuition feeseducation tuition, but she has not paid any cent for my education 18even though she kneweven she knew I had many 19difficulty paying itproblems to pay it. From my perspective, our ancestors had a better living condition. One important reason behind it is that they were more supportive to each other. Admittedly, traditional family structure assisted all age groups to have a better feeling about life. Adolescents need to be supported by their adults during their study, and seniors received more 20aidaids from their offspring. Another one is that communities could adapt themselves to some unexpected critical conditions. In this case, had not European poor citizens been supported by the rich after World War II, their homes would not have been recovered so fast.

In conclusion, developing of technology, humans have the lacking consideration to others. I personally believe that the former societies had safer lifestyles because all age groups were more supportive to each other, during critical conditions or any stage of life.