The fact that technology is outpacing the needs of those in cultures that can afford the technology creates cultures of excess consumerism.
The expansive growth of Internet and penetration of technology in everyday lives has had a drastic impact on the lives of people. The technology has one side acted as an enabler empowering people with choices and on the other hand spun a sinister web where it cajoles people in impulsive consumerism. To understand whether technology has played more of a positive or a negative role in lives of consumers we need to understand both sides of the argument.
In earlier times when technology was limited to few people the masses were devoid of choices. As a consumer one was restricted to what was produced and sold locally. Advent of technology has given consumers option to choose from the comfort of their homes from amongst almost an infinite number of consumer durables and consumables. Whatever one needs is available to them at a moments notice. Amazon, Alibaba and Flipkart have started catering to the demands of consumers not only in urban but in rural areas. Life saving drugs and equipment’s are being made available ubiquitously at competitive pricing thanks to the technology. In light of these cases technology seems more of help than a promulgator of consumerism.
But, technology like any other medium is prone to exploitation. It cannot be ignored that technology has lead to increased level of consumerism also. The ease of availability of goods has reduced the difference between the needs and wants of an individual. Mobile companies bring out new versions of mobile phones every six months turning those bought few months back obsolete. We are all familiar with people queuing up days before the launch of new mobile phones. This can be attributed to the hype created by technology forcing people into impulsive consumerism. Also, this culture of excessive consumerism leads to wastage leading to harmful impact on the environment and pressure on depleting resources.
We encounter an ethical question in this argument. What is excessive consumerism? Is it defined as the act of people consuming more what they need? And if indeed that then who gets to decide what are the actual needs? Technology, I feel is only acting as an enabler and if someone prefers to purchase more goods than they can consume then it is a choice made by the individual and technology is not be blamed for it. I would not agree in entirety with the statement that technology promotes excessive consumerism. I believe it gives one choices and qouting reputed economist Dr. Amartya Sen, freedom is the choices one has technology has been a liberator for the cultures.
Grammar and spelling errors:
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Message: Did you mean 'too'?
Suggestion: too
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Suggestion: as well
... lead to increased level of consumerism also. The ease of availability of goods has ...
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Message: Don't use the numeral 'one' with plural words. Did you mean 'one choice', 'a choice', or simply 'choices'?
Suggestion: one choice; a choice; choices
...cessive consumerism. I believe it gives one choices and qouting reputed economist Dr. Amart...
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Discourse Markers used:
['also', 'but', 'if', 'so', 'then', 'i feel', 'on the other hand']
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance in Part of Speech:
Nouns: 0.266958424508 0.240241500013 111% => OK
Verbs: 0.17943107221 0.157235817809 114% => OK
Adjectives: 0.0809628008753 0.0880659088768 92% => OK
Adverbs: 0.0328227571116 0.0497285424764 66% => OK
Pronouns: 0.035010940919 0.0444667217837 79% => OK
Prepositions: 0.135667396061 0.12292977631 110% => OK
Participles: 0.0656455142232 0.0406280797675 162% => OK
Conjunctions: 2.83503946844 2.79330140395 101% => OK
Infinitives: 0.0328227571116 0.030933414821 106% => OK
Particles: 0.00437636761488 0.0016655270985 263% => OK
Determiners: 0.0962800875274 0.0997080785238 97% => OK
Modal_auxiliary: 0.00875273522976 0.0249443105267 35% => OK
WH_determiners: 0.0175054704595 0.0148568991511 118% => OK
Vocabulary words and sentences:
No of characters: 2572.0 2732.02544248 94% => OK
No of words: 427.0 452.878318584 94% => OK
Chars per words: 6.02341920375 6.0361032391 100% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.54576487731 4.58838876751 99% => OK
words length more than 5 chars: 0.384074941452 0.366273622748 105% => OK
words length more than 6 chars: 0.295081967213 0.280924506359 105% => OK
words length more than 7 chars: 0.196721311475 0.200843997647 98% => OK
words length more than 8 chars: 0.145199063232 0.132149295362 110% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.83503946844 2.79330140395 101% => OK
Unique words: 235.0 219.290929204 107% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.550351288056 0.48968727796 112% => OK
Word variations: 64.4088070965 55.4138127331 116% => OK
How many sentences: 24.0 20.6194690265 116% => OK
Sentence length: 17.7916666667 23.380412469 76% => OK
Sentence length SD: 42.0148576564 59.4972553346 71% => OK
Chars per sentence: 107.166666667 141.124799967 76% => OK
Words per sentence: 17.7916666667 23.380412469 76% => OK
Discourse Markers: 0.291666666667 0.674092028746 43% => More Discourse Markers wanted.
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.94800884956 81% => OK
Language errors: 4.0 5.21349557522 77% => OK
Readability: 47.299863388 51.4728631049 92% => OK
Elegance: 1.89380530973 1.64882698954 115% => OK
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.468064852622 0.391690518653 119% => OK
Sentence sentence coherence: 0.0854558851858 0.123202303941 69% => OK
Sentence sentence coherence SD: 0.0658000612887 0.077325440228 85% => OK
Sentence paragraph coherence: 0.444254946249 0.547984918172 81% => OK
Sentence paragraph coherence SD: 0.137262432537 0.149214159877 92% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.159776269521 0.161403998019 99% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0807080139936 0.0892212321368 90% => OK
Paragraph paragraph coherence: 0.403714230711 0.385218514788 105% => OK
Paragraph paragraph coherence SD: 0.0500483079845 0.0692045440612 72% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.336311351361 0.275328986314 122% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0264899846786 0.0653680567796 41% => OK
Task Achievement:
Sentences with positive sentiment : 14.0 10.4325221239 134% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 5.0 5.30420353982 94% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 5.0 4.88274336283 102% => OK
Positive topic words: 11.0 7.22455752212 152% => OK
Negative topic words: 4.0 3.66592920354 109% => OK
Neutral topic words: 4.0 2.70907079646 148% => OK
Total topic words: 19.0 13.5995575221 140% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
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Rates: 54.17 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 3.25 Out of 6
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