Benefit or Disadvantage?

         Machinery is something many of us depend on to do tasks we find too hard to do. Some of us have a Keurig to help us make coffee, treadmills to run in the privacy in our homes, and even machines who take up our time distracting us with videos, post our friends send us, and who we let run our lives. Gandhi said machinery has only brought evil, he has a point but there are things machinery has done to help us in ways besides distract us and make us lazy.

Machines have been used to save people’s lives and save us time to do great work.  Although these things also backfired on us since in saving us time, it has made us lazy and dependent on machines. We constantly spend money on the newest things because we feel like we need it, we don’t pay attention to what is going on around us because our faces are buried in our phones looking at what Trump has done and shake our heads.

Machines might be the cause of our country’s disarray since all we do is be in the comfort of our homes and judge people through television and phones but not actually do anything to change the world we live in and instead prefer to be looking at what the Kardashians are doing. Why not be less dependent on our machinery and actually do stuff ourselves and go out and change the way the world is working instead of trying to change it with our glares and frustrated sighs directed at our device? Until then, we will have to deal with the way the world is right now.

          Question: Has machinery brought us any good, other than saving lives and saving time?