I believe that life today is much easier than before, especially in food and clothes. But, it does not mean that people is more comfortable than the period when our ancestors lived.

First, we surely have plentiful food, so survival can be an easy thing. As technology development, the productivities per filed have increased to a level that could not be imagined several years before. As a result, we do not need to worry about how to be full. For example, my parents always tell me to cherish food, because it was so precious that they can not enjoy it when they were kids. To survive, they had to find anything that was not noxious, such as grass and stuff. But what we do for living is to find things we like. It is easier than the time when they must eat something that might be awful in modern life.

Second, although to be alived is not so diffcult, life is as not comfortable as that period, even much worse. Because people are under high pressure. When people find a job, they have to talk with different clients on the phone, send e-mails, even need to be toady to ensure they have positions at their companies. And the house also put a string on young persons. The prices are mutiple times than a few years before.But the salaries are almost the same. Therefore, people who want to be independent have to rent houses.

As for children, it has been a common sense that kids today is more stressed. They attend so many classes such as piano classes, so that they do not have time to play with their peers. They must make sure their grades are high enough to enable them to get places at better schools, wanting to find high decent jobs after graduating. In short, it is obvious that life today is not more comfortable than it was when our  grandparents were young.