What is a pro and con of having a lower standard of living and a pro and con of having a higher standard of living?
Thursday, 16 November 2017
Standard of Living
We did some comparisons between 18th Century Europe and Modern Canada and their standard of living. Standard of Living is the level of comfort and wealth available &/or expected of a certain socio-economic group or geographic region.
What is a pro and con of having a lower standard of living and a pro and con of having a higher standard of living?
What is a pro and con of having a lower standard of living and a pro and con of having a higher standard of living?
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A pro of a high standard of living is that you most likely already have all your basic needs. A con however is that it is hard to seperate what you NEED and what you WANT.
ReplyDeleteAn advantage of a low standard of living is that you're very grateful for what you get and don't take many things for granted. unfortunetly that usually means you're really poor and don't have many things to begin with.
thats mine! Nathan
DeleteA pro to having a lower standard of living is the fact that being satisified with having bare minimum to get by with gives a person the opportunity to be grateful whenever a positive or more luxurous event occurs. It also allows this person to live a more basic and simpler way of life despite the advancing technology around us. A con of having a lower standard of living is that you may not understand how hard your life is and how much simpler and happier you could be if you raised your standards and hoped for more. Such as better treatment and equality (French Revolution). A pro towards having a high standard of living would be that you are constantly working on bettering yourself and striving for a better life for yourself in you family that is comfortable, has adventures and allows to you have things you don't just need but want. A con to having a high standard of living is the fact that you'll have such high standards you'll never be satisified with the life you are living currently. You may even put yourself into debt because of the expectancy to have such luxurous items despite their uselessness. A.E.
ReplyDeletelower standard of living: CON- You don't really have the luxuries of a higher standard of living and are looked down by those who do. PRO- you dont take the stuff you do have for granted and you would appreciate those items a lot more. A higher standard of living: PRO- you have a lot of luxeriesa and a lot of problems dont effect you the way it might others. CON- a lot of the things you have you take for granted because you are used to having it all the time and you dont expect it as much as you should. -LandonN
ReplyDeleteThe standards of living between these two time frames are quite different, but there are of course pros and cons to both situations. For example in the 18th century there were very few people that were overweight or out of shape and they all knew what it was like to have to work hard for the tings they had. Where now we don't have that same work ethic and appreciation for some of the things we are given (variety, free time, benefits, etc.) Today though we enjoy comfort and entertainment that allows us to spend timing building, inventing, laughing and creating new relationships and tools. Where they used to work to the point of exhaustion and had very shallow relationships as they were simply expected not to last for extended amounts of time. Overall we often take many things for granted in this day and age that they did not and may abuse the things we have been given, but I would take now over then in a heartbeat.
ReplyDeleteLow standard of living
ReplyDeletepro- if you have a low standard of living its easier to go through life without any problems because you will likely make that standard and have a higher convidence rate
con- if your standard of living is low its hard to better yourself and maybe you standard isnt high enough to make a difference in your life so your always in a slum and stuggling to get by because some stuff can snowball and take over your life
High standard of living
pro-if you can reach that standard you will live of an easy life with full of benefits and it always pushes you to meet that standard so you can do better later on.
con- you can always struggle to try and meet the standard and but in some cases it might not work out you might make the wrong move like a bad investment that does no good and you could fall behind the standard you set for yourself. then possbly get down on yourself and wont be a very happy person.
Pros of having a lower standard of living is: that we don't need to work so much for our own luxury, we will just have the basic needs and so that's enough. When you have nothing, you don't need to worry about someone stealing any of your things because you have nothing to get stolen. You don't worry as much as those rich people who has to work harder and more for the things they need. Basically, you have all the things you need to live then you don't care about the other unnecessary things other people have but you don't.
ReplyDeleteCons about lower standard: You don't get the things you do want, and other people are living a little easier life becasue they use the things they buy to make their life easier. And even though you have a low standard, you need to live, so you might be working as much as other person who is rich but have less things then them.
Pros about having a higher standard living: You get the things you want in life, you get to go places around the world and travel. You work hard, then your hard working pays off. You learn how to use moeny in a proper sense, or where to spend it on. After retirement you can do all the things you want to do. You really don't need to worry about money.
Cons about having a higher standard of living: You need work extra hard for the money. You don't get to be home with your family most of the time becasue you are working over time. You worry a lot about how you have to make that money and how to store it well in a bank account. You worry about how your clothing will look to other people and you need to buy better clothing, then you have to work harder to get all the things you want in your life. Amy Kim
whoops the last one was bt Piper nordell
ReplyDeletePros to having a low standard of living are that you are content with how your living you dont need more, your satisfied with the small amount you get because you dont know any better and dont feel the need to work to have a better life but to survive so you do what u can you also learn many skills that people with high standards of living would not know because its part of your everyday life unlike the higher standarized people, cons to this also are that you have nothing more than what you need and life could be so much better and finding work was hard and not many options, but fo course you dont know that. having to pay money all the time just to live and not having any extra and its very hard to make more, You barely get by on what you have and thats but you dont know any better so your ok with that. Pros to having a high standard of living is that you always have what you need and often many varietys of it, easy ways to make money if its needed and you get to work for the extras not just to survive along with work options, cons to this are that everything becomes easier and lack many skills that you could have if you had lower standards and you expect more and if you dont have enough your upset because you are so used to having so much. R.M.
ReplyDeletethe standards of living where pretty bad in 18th century like how you were expected to die at around 25-35 years of age or that only 50% of children survive childbirth with only 50% of those children surviving to the age of 9 and that you were expected to work every day until the day you die but maybe there are somethings that were better like greed wasn't as common the food wasn't filled with chemicals but i think i prefer the current life expectancy of around 85 years of age and that only 5 of 1000 children die in childbirth and we don't have to worry about diseases . that does not mean we are don't have flaws like that greed is so common, and that are advancements not only make life easier but they make it so much easier to take life away. thanks for reading
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If you have a lower standard of living then most of the time you will expect less and be happy with having just the necessities and be more greatful for everything. But it is bad because people who have a lower living standard generally also don't have much to begin with meaning that they are most likely poor and can't afford to to give their family a nice home and probably have to do a lot of work to get the money to feed their family. Having a higher standard of living can be good now the standard of living has improved greatly compared to a century ago. doing the same amount of work will now buy a larger amount of food. automobiles that at one point were considered a luxury are now more widely available. but it is also a bad thing because people with more money are seen as better and more powerful which just isn't true. and they generally have more control over what goes on in society.
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living with a lower standard in the 18th centery but also partly today aswell. you could raised to be good in the way of morals and wisdom because you learn to earn everything you have and so you know its a hard life so you are very generous person and give anything you can to help others and are beyond thankful when someone does the same in return you are also a very hard worker above all else but the cons to this would be that you never see anything else except work is all you know and have experenced. the whole world is infront of you and you could fall sick and not have the means to recover due to overwork, underpay, or just less then ideal conditions at work and at home. now days in the 21st centary life living with a lower standard of would raise you staive for goals and success even if success is different for everyone. it mades you determined to be better and still keep the lessons learned only from living a low standard of living like gping from the ground to a new mattress gives you a apprecation some that always had one could never have but the cons of course would be having to by things used or low qaulity and having to hope you can pay the rent this month is a stress many people dont have to worry about millions experence this daily. living with a high standard of living in the 18th centary would cause you to be selfish and ungrateful because you dont know what its like not to be rich so you are hated by lower class but as a pro of this life would be you would have to go hungry or cold youd have people fufilling your every wish so you are spoiled and get anything handed to you this is also similar to high standard of living in the 21st centary because you are raised witha silver spoon and are blind to the worlds problems or maybe just desensitized to the struggles of lower class but a pro would be security in knowing you have money to pay for rent and food and have fun with and having rich parents to fall back on if things go south
ReplyDeleteif you have a lower standard of living you will be happy with what you have because you probably didint have that much to start with henry m
ReplyDeletePros of having a lower standard of living is that we dont need to work so much for our own luxury we will just have the basic needs and so that's enough. When you have nothing, you don't need to worry about someone stealing any of your things because you have nothing to get stolen - Malachi.com
ReplyDeleteif you have a lower standard of living you would expect a little less. and if you have a higher standard of living you can get more
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