What Is The Cost Of Living In American Society

Standard living is the degree of wealth and material comfort available to a person or community. The government plays a large role in the standard of living in there nations. Government provisions of public goods and safety nets programs are great examples. They are the resources for the society for example insurance,public schools and hospitals. The government also chooses what kind of economic system the the society lives by. In my opinion a mixed economic system provides the highest standard of living. I think this because a mixed economy takes parts of all the economic systems and combines them. I believe that governments who have a mixed economy have more advantages and in conclusion higher stand of living.

Many individuals in the United States have family or friends living in different parts of the world. Beforehand, for one to keep in contact with those living outside of the United States, they had to either pay additional money to their cellular device carrier to be able to make international long-distance phone calls or go purchase minutes from companies such as Boss Revolution, Nopin, etc. But now, with social media such as Facebook, Twitter, Snapchat, and Instagram, it’s easier to keep the long-distance relationship flowing. In Dunbar words, ““What Facebook does and why it’s been so successful in so many ways is it allows [one] to keep track of people who could otherwise effectively disappear”” (Konnikova 237). When one is able reconnect with another individual or reestablish their relationship they’re able to reconcile. There’s no need for people to spend money to keep in contact with an individual in another country no more, after all, social media is penniless.

One time me and my brother were on our phones talking to our friends and our mother was calling us, needless to say we didn't hear her so she came upstairs and snatched the phones right out of our hands and said, "They live right down the street, just go to their house." Technology has advanced so far that we rarely need to step out of our own house to talk to people and as cool as that seem it has become a problem. Although, technology has made great things possible like communicating with your loved ones across the globe and it has even progressed human evolution. However, its has taken a fundamental aspect of humanity from us. We no longer feel the need to communicate human to human. This is lack in human contact is in fact a problem

Americans today tend to not realize we’re slowly being separated from each other. Whether it be electronics keeping us away from the family at night or just social media that keeps us from going outside and actually socializing. It has become a serious problem and it happens more and more as we continue to advance in technology. Not to mention it's forming another problem in the way we’ve shaped our societies so that it's extremely easy to be cut off from human connections without even realizing it. Johann Hari, The author of “The Likely Cause of Addiction” pulled my attention towards realizing that this addiction is a fast paced growing problem. Hari Specifically states,"We have created human societies where it is easier for people to become cut off from all human connections than ever before." He’s basically stating that it’s become way too easy to be disconnected from our society and its gotten worse over time. Honestly I agree with how he thinks, we don’t realize it but we’re all being slowly cut off from our society. Whether we like it or not we’ve created our society to be the way it is, and it caused us to be so easily disconnected from one another.

I agree with William Deresiewicz, in the sense that we rely on technology and social media websites too much for our real social experience. Now days, it doesn’t take just a couple minutes to send out a mass social media post to let the world know what we have

People can easily access friends and family. A women moved to New York and she felt distanced from her loved ones but now, because of the steady stream of photos and status updates, she knew what was happening with her friends all along (Doc.2). With the power of immediately connecting with anyone around the world you can

In his June 12, 2015 article “Flick, Flick” published in the commonweal, Rand, Richard Copper wrote that people are addicted to their phones and they don't have time to make new conversation with others. People are using their phone to talk to their friends instead of talking to them in person. According to the article, people are “farming out” conversation, a significant part of their lives and their selves. In the article author gives an example, where his three friends and himself went to see the red sox game, instead of watching the game all of his friends were playing games on their phones. In the article he also says “ our here is disappearing” meaning that people do not want to talk to anyone in person; they just want to use their phones

This summer, I moved to my current place of residency, Quincy. I traveled across the ocean from Tirana, Albania, to explore and experience new opportunities such as soccer, with a new team, but also begin a new type of education in an American high school. While living in Albania, I never had to help pay the bills, and life was easy because the cost of living was so low. However, when I moved, I began to realize that living in America is more challenging than I expected. I discovered that the cost of living is high and I needed money to have fun with my new friends. Therefore, I decided to look around and applied for a job at Abercrombie & Fitch Kids. I got the job and spent most my summer working at Abercrombie & Fitch. The mind-numbing act

College tuition in America is the highest it has ever been. It is increasing higher than the rate of inflation. The rising rates are causing students to take out more student loans and making it harder to pay back those student loans after college. How do the students pay for the ever increasing cost of college? The solutions are making the U.S. government pay for college or continue having the student pay their own way through college.

With time comes the constant change of technology, its advancements and our reactions over the refinement itself. In ‘ Distracted: The Erosion of Attention And The Coming Dark Age”, Jackson makes ungrounded statements concerning the negative effects of technology and the benefits it has acquired however Jackson accurately reveals the truth behind Jackson’s opinions on the effects of technology are one sided and very biased. A study by Edward Hallowell states that the way we are living our lives, controlled by balancing multiple task, is contributing to the attention deficit disorders (Jackson 149). As a result of our speedy generation, fast-acting systems and programs perfectly embody what is appropriate to our society at the time.

Take a minute and allow me to paint a picture of the past for you. Let’s go back to just 1994 when cell phones were almost obsolete. The wealthy and rich had access to bag phones and Motorola commercial phones of which costed an arm and a leg per minute. If one wanted an update on a family member or friend, you could not simply just shoot a text or take a peek at Facebook; one actually had to pick up a land line or travel for face to face interaction. Not having many technological luxuries promoted a simpler lifestyle, one with better social interaction and communication skills. Now, fast-forward to the technology driven society. The society we live in today lacks the face to face communication skills, struggles with identity fluidity, and holds an extreme compulsion to be connected to technology every hour of the day.

As this article state about the disadvantages of using modern ways of communication and lacking of feelings, however, at some point I disagree with the author’s opinion. As the author mention, “The disconnection-or sense of feeling separate from others- that people feel is very real” (Johnson, Chandra), this example made me wonder that if we do not see the person one on one we won’t have the real separation feeling? I think at some point, a person gets a habit of talking to a friend or a family member who probably moved to another place, but social media or screen time helps us to stay connected with them and not talking to them for a few weeks does bring

The United States today is known as an industrialized nation. This means that we have a high standard of living. However, there are many countries that do not have a high standard of living and they are called developing nations. Many things could keep them from becoming a developed nation such as no international trade, lack of factories, and a lack of tariffs.

With the power of social media and the internet, we can connect globally in a way that was not possible before. Unfortunately, I do have to admit that it does take away a more personable interaction. Most people will connect with Facebook versus taking the time to see the person. For example, in the reading, “I’m Still Here: Back Online after a Year without the Internet” by Paul Miller, he said “It is the boredom and lack of stimulation that drives me to do things I really care about, like writing and spending time with others” (4). When we get bored, we want to do things we have never done before. The downside is, that there is people that rather kill that time on their devices. Rather than, cleaning their room or explore the world for those valuable 20 minutes they will text their life away. If everyone, was to go a month without the internet, the world would probably end. Everyone is so addicted to this new era of devices.

Although technology helps people keep in touch with the ones we can’t see and it’s faster to communicate with anyone around the world. Even though technology removes