There was time left after school for play and fun such as swimming in rivers, playing top, flying kites and kicking a “sepak raga” ball around. Nowadays, children have time for only thing - study.
As if studying in school for about six hours a day is not enough, they attend one tuition class after another after school.
Getting a job nowadays is also difficult. One has to study for years to get the right qualifications before one can apply for certain job.
Besides this, people nowadays are burdened by the high cost of living.
Everything costs at least 10 times more than what it was 20 years ago. Nowadays the 5 cents coin cannot be used for buying anything while 40 years ago it could be used to buy a lot of things
is especially expensive nowadays is provide one's children with tertiary education. Just financing one of your children could wipe out your whole life's savings. In the past it can only about RM30,000.
So, one of main barriers to leading a better life nowadays is the exorbitant cost of living.
Those who support the view that life is very much better now claim that the quality of present-day life has proved. Before, people used to live in small attap huts without electricity or piped water.
Presently, people live in brick houses with electricity and piped water ever ready to serve them at the flick of a switch or the turn of a tap. People earning power has increased many fold and this more than compensates for the increase in the prices of goods services.
In fact, people have so much money left over after paying for the basic necessities that they can afford to big cars, wear expensive clothes, eat good food and go on overseas holidays. Education and medical services are better nowadays.
As for me, I also think that life nowadays is much better than in the past. What do you think?
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