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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.
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Food
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Shelter
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Water
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Internet access
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email (?)
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phone number (?) / mobile phone (?)
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ID 100 points
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Love
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Clothing
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Hygiene and Healthcare
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Human connection
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Basic Education
I think Maslow's "hierarchy of needs" is interesting. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maslow's_hierarchy_of_needs "... the idea is that individuals' most basic needs must be met before they become motivated to achieve higher-level needs." I think the bare necessities are the lower levels: food, water, warmth, rest. My first thought was that technology would be at the higher levels (eg "creative activities"), but actually it is involved in the lower levels also. I say this because the boiler providing my family with heat broke down during snowy weather earlier this year.
With even the most basic needs right at the bottom of the hierarchy requiring money in order to obtain these days, and money being next to impossible to acquire and use without technology, an awful lot of technology does indeed belong in the bottom layer of the hierarchy of needs. The only way to make technology genuinely only used for the higher levels and not a basic need would be to ensure that everybody has food, water, shelter, and rest without needing any money whatsoever.