Life today or Life in the past... Which one is better?

Subject: Life today is easy for many people, but it's expensive. On the contrary, in the past, people did not have to spend a lot of money to buy things. Which one is better then? Life today or life in the past? Explain.

In my personal opinion, life today is better than life in the past. In the past, there were no machines to help us. Everyone People can could not easily contact one another. together. Also, their work was more laborsome. People have to work very difficult. As everything was handmade/crafted, the productivity was very low. If you wanted to send me a message, you had have to write a letter and then I have had to wait for that letter to reach me. Nowadays, everything has become so became easy. Machines are helping human life a lot. Everyone can contact anyone anytime from almost any place in the world. Various sciences have made immense progess. grow very fast. Nowadays, life is easier/easy for many people. You can do many things at a time/at the same time. But, cost of everything is going through the roof. People have to pay money for anything, each and everything, such as, taxes, expenses, bills per month, etc. As a result, the spaces gap between the rich people and the poor people is are getting bigger. The rich wastes money and the poor needs money, but it this is the life.