Assume that your country and the world foccused its attention upon providing bassic individual human needs as its most desired goal... and it happened.!
Electricity, food, water and basic shelter became FREE for the taking in every city and town... there was never a fear of having to do without at least a motel-sized room, a pair of jeans and a top - shoes & socks, a TV dinner and enough water to bath and drink ones fill; and that these same necessities were distributed to rich and poor alike, if they so desired.
Assuming that every individual, (in the absence of accident or illness,) became insured that at least these few FREE-FOR-ALL necessities were firmly in place to guarantee and secure day to day survival, what impact on society would you expect as a result of the change?
2006-07-18 18:27:03 · 3 answers · asked by Anonymous in Social Science ➔ Sociology
although it is no utopia for me.. but in the Islamic history there were one similar incident in one area under the governing of Sultan Abdel Aziz ( i do not remember the whole name )..and it was called the golden era ..it happened that all ppl were capable and even that the money allocated for poor ppl were kept in the Sultan Khazna ( safe) because no body asked for or need it..
it was wittnessed that at the era there were ZERO crimes and a very stable land ruling..but that did not last off course
2006-07-18 20:02:30 · answer #1 · answered by Nan 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
What you suggest is actually impossible, because resources are limited. For one man to give another food,he must therefore have lesser food by the same amount, and whatnot.
However, let's say it could happen.
I'd bet people would behave much the same as they do today in american white suburbia, only more so: they'd spend most of their time, or all, in recreation, eating, and entertainment. Wars might cease altogether, or the entire world may erupt - who knows what might happen when people with grudges suddenly have very little that they really need to do? Lot's, and lots, and lots of people would die from heart disease and diabietes, due to an excessive obesity epidemic.
But that's just my imagining.
2006-07-19 01:44:11 · answer #2 · answered by extton 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well, it is pretty much like that in the U.S. A person has to kind of screw up or be outrageously unorganized not to have these basics for the most part. The result is that people are still messing up what they have, being jealous of others, etc. But actually, most of us do pretty well.
2006-07-19 01:54:56 · answer #3 · answered by The First Dragon 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋