Years back, it was more simple. Food, shelter, and water. But now, as technology, advances and people get stressed out more and more from life getting too complicated, needing manuals for almost everything. What do you guys think the bear necessities are now?

Edit: let’s make a list for fun.

  • Food

  • Shelter

  • Water

  • Internet access

  • email (?)

  • phone number (?) / mobile phone (?)

  • ID 100 points

  • Love

  • Clothing

  • Hygiene and Healthcare

  • Human connection

  • Basic Education

  •  Pons_Aelius   ( @Pons_Aelius@kbin.social ) 
    18•9 months ago

    Honestly?

    (all this is predicated on being someone in a western or developed country, that is all I know and cannot speak to anything else)

    The bear necessities are still, Food, shelter, and water. You can survive with that, but that is all you are doing, just surviving.

    My next step up the ladder would be functional necessities, the things you need to function in modern society. Electricity and access to the internet. You struggle to function in a modern society without those.

    Anything after that and you are moving into the realm of wants, rather than needs.