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

  • drkt@feddit.dkEnglish
    4·
    9 months ago

    In Denmark, my list would, be in order of most essential,

    • Potable Water (this can be had for free all year round if you know where to look)
    • Food (also free if you know where to look, but unreliable especially during winter)
    • Shelter (top priority in winter because you’ll freeze to death otherwise)
    • Yellow healthcard (because all government services consider it valid ID)
    • WiFi capable smartphone (because you can’t interact with a lot of government services without one, I tried…)
    • An address (even if you don’t live there, because some government services don’t consider you a person without one)

    It should also be noted that unless you get a very special exception (non-digital citizen), you will need regular internet access from a device with a modern up-to-date browser to connect to government and municipal services. If you don’t, you’ll need the non-digital citizen exception and require an address with a mailbox that you can access instead.

    Municipalities generally also offer homeless shelters, but last time I was at one, about a decade ago, they were definitely not nice places. I’d rather sleep on a bench most of the year.

    • M. Orange@beehaw.orgEnglish
      3·
      9 months ago

      I’d actually call this list pretty exhaustive, and it would apply to most places in the world. The only thing different in America would be the health card. A DMV ID card, basically a driver’s license without the driving, would be the equivalent here.