The Price of Progress: How Much Are We Willing to Pay?
The Price of Progress: How Much are We Willing to Pay?
In this day and age, various terms associated with economic development came about as means of measuring the well-being of each individual in the society such as per capita income, gross domestic product (GDP), gross national product (GNP), unemployment rate, literacy rate, and many more. The emergence of these terminologies is due to the consideration of government planners of each nation to make a step forward to reach economic development. Of course, compromises should be done in order to acquire the advantages brought about by the ideology of progress. But if you will come to think of it, what is the price to achieve them and how much are we willing to pay?
The government planners have generally decided that the necessary steps to achieve progress should be taken because of its significant advantages such as increased incomes, higher standards of living, greater security, and better health. But because of these advantages, they already set aside the traditional cultures of tribal groups to obtain them. The circumstance that could be noted in the argument of John Bodley in his article The Price of Progress is that the changes necessary for progress are imposed by the government on the tribal groups in order for them to obtain tribal resources. In response to this action of the government planners, it could be assumed that what they are trying to do is acquiring the tribal resources to exploit them in terms of production such as food security that is still in the benefit of the common good. Even if some points of this argument are evident, it is still hard to jump into conclusions such as the government planners are being selfish.
Bodley suggests that the association of higher standards of living with progress is inaccurate because it is seemingly limited as it excludes cultural relevance. The results of the progress became poverty, longer working hours, greater physical exertion, poor health,
In this day and age, various terms associated with economic development came about as means of measuring the well-being of each individual in the society such as per capita income, gross domestic product (GDP), gross national product (GNP), unemployment rate, literacy rate, and many more. The emergence of these terminologies is due to the consideration of government planners of each nation to make a step forward to reach economic development. Of course, compromises should be done in order to acquire the advantages brought about by the ideology of progress. But if you will come to think of it, what is the price to achieve them and how much are we willing to pay?
The government planners have generally decided that the necessary steps to achieve progress should be taken because of its significant advantages such as increased incomes, higher standards of living, greater security, and better health. But because of these advantages, they already set aside the traditional cultures of tribal groups to obtain them. The circumstance that could be noted in the argument of John Bodley in his article The Price of Progress is that the changes necessary for progress are imposed by the government on the tribal groups in order for them to obtain tribal resources. In response to this action of the government planners, it could be assumed that what they are trying to do is acquiring the tribal resources to exploit them in terms of production such as food security that is still in the benefit of the common good. Even if some points of this argument are evident, it is still hard to jump into conclusions such as the government planners are being selfish.
Bodley suggests that the association of higher standards of living with progress is inaccurate because it is seemingly limited as it excludes cultural relevance. The results of the progress became poverty, longer working hours, greater physical exertion, poor health,