Advantages and disadvantages of the Amish lifestyle

Advantages

One of the most apparent advantages of such a lifestyle is that there is no separation within families as they do not become attached to machines and technology and depend on their fellow people which makes them rather nice and east - going. They are also very hardworking as they do not depend on machines to help them do their farm work and thus are well - built and less prone to obesity problems. They are also able to improvise well as they have to make use of what little resources they have to help them work since they do not make use of machinery which allows them to cope better when faced with problems that pertain to a lack of resources. Also they are not prey to power shortages as they make so little use of electricity and if they were to face problems such as shortage of oil it would not really matter to them. Also if they were faced with inflation it would not affect the Amish as they grow their own food. The Amish are also very bonded and virtuous which means that the crime rates in an Amish settlement is close to none. Another advantage is that there is very little stress for the Amish for money and other treasures as they are not allowed to possess expensive things such as cars and they buld their own houses and grow thier own food, get water from the wells and the education fees are very low. The only thing they need to purchase is thread to sew their clothes and other resources to build their carts and so on.

Disadvantages

Since the Ordnung prohibits them from possessing technologically advanced materials the Amish are unable to make use of such machines to help them with their farming which will surely hinder their productivity. But the Amish are still able to keep up with the productivity as they work long hours but that might cause the Amish to tire and lead to Amish falling ill easily. Also with the restrictions to education, the Amish will be unable to learn things like critical thinking which might be useful should they meet up with a problem like droughts and have to negotiate with other terrortories to give them some water. Also since most of the Amish economy is dependent on agriculture thus if a natural disaster like a flood or drought were to occur then they would not be able to grow anything and their only source of economy will fall and they will face an economic disaster. They also do not have any defense such as guns against hostile forces such as terrorist attacks and thus will be an easy target. The Amish will also not be able to cope with the global changes such as global warming and prevent them as they are too primitive and thus will be unable to solve such problems. There might also be a mass extinction of the Amish should a pandemic hit their land as they are also not medically advanced and thus are vulnerable to such attacks.

Opinion

In my opinion I do not think the Amish civilisation will last as even though there are many advantages to their lifestyle there are more major and serious disadvantages to their lifestyle. As if they were to live a life like this yes, thier life will be better as they have less problems as per compared to the mainstream civilisation, such as economic disasters, more joblesss people and so on. But all these problems can be solved by us as we have gone through better education than the Amish and thus are able to find solutions. As for the Amish their problems can be started just by a simple thing like a monsoon or drought and the damage will be more large - scale as their life depends on one thing and that is agriculture. So they are quite dependent on their land and the weather which is not a good thing with our current global warming problem which causes freak weather. Also they will not be able to easily solve their problems as they do not have critical thinking.