1. What does every person need to live well and thrive?
Question 1 of 6: What does every person need to live well and thrive? · The whole story
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Why this question comes first
Section titled “Why this question comes first”Every judgement about society needs a measure. The Society Guide uses people’s needs: a society works well when the people in it can meet them.
The needs
Section titled “The needs”Five needs are shared by every person, described in the Personal Guide: physical health and energy, safety and security, social connection, autonomy, and meaning and purpose.
- Human needs (in the Personal Guide): what each need is, and how they relate.
How this connects
Section titled “How this connects”These needs are the yardstick for every following question: whether resources are enough (2), whether society delivers them (3), what the big forces put at risk (4), and which solutions (5) and causes (6) help most.