people are encouraged to buy consumer good

ĐỀ 8/6/2013

Discuss: Nowadays, people are encouraged to buy consumer good. Is this trend beneficial to individual and economy or not?

Good

- stimulate economy

- meet daily demand

- encourage creativity

Bad

- reduce saving

- be hazardous to environment and our heath

- assimilate people's thinking

We all needs 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 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.

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          Stimulate = Spur /spə:/ (n) (v) : sự khích lệ, khuyến khích, kích thích

-         Ubiquitous (adj) : có mặt ở khắp nơi, ở đâu cũng có

-         Imbue + with (v) : thấm đẫm, nhuộm

-         Herald (v) báo trước (n) sứ giả, người đưa tin, điềm báo

-         Self-satisfaction (n) : sự tự mãn

-         Amidst (giới từ) : ở giữa

-         Satiate (adj) : thỏa mãn chán ngấy  (v) : làm thỏa mãn = sate (v)

-         Rankle (v) :giày vò, day dứt, làm đau đớn

-         Refinement (n) : sự tinh tế, tinh vi

-         Contaminate /kən'tæmineit/ (v) : làm bẩn, làm ô uế, làm nhiễm bệnh, làm hư hỏng

-         Deplete /di’pli:t/ (v) làm suy yếu, xả hết ra, làm rỗng không

-         Cruel /’kruəl/ (adj) tàn nhẫn, tàn ác, thảm khốc

-         Greed /gri:d/ + for  (n) : tính tham lam, ham danh lợi, thói háu ăn

-         Instil = instill (v) : truyền dẫn, làm cho thấm nhuần (ý nghĩ, tình cảm..)

-         Deprive sb/sth of sth (v) lấy đi của ai cái j`

-         Assimilate (v) tiêu hóa, đồng hóa

-         Environmentalist (n) : nhà môi trường học

-         Hazardous /'hæzədəs/ (adj) liều, mạo hiểm, nguy hiểm = risky