Once basic needs are met, increasing consumption often doesn't increase happiness.
After our basic needs are met, we all have a need for safety and security.
They have to ensure basic needs are met – for food, shelter, clothing – and for that people need jobs and income.
He disburses Social Security checks to clients of the Washington Department of Mental Health and makes sure their basic needs are met.
Yet it should come as no surprise that, once their basic needs are met, people are motivated by a lot more than money.
"What people are voting for with their pocketbooks, as soon as they have more money and even before their basic needs are met, is telecommunications".
"The people, as long as their basic needs are met — they're not starving and they have shelter — are such a joyful culture," Kershaw said.
With just more than 24 hours since the storm hit, the focus of recovery efforts began to shift from search and rescue to reopening roads, cleaning debris and ensuring that storm victims' basic needs are met.
"After our basic needs are met, more money doesn't lead to more happiness," he told Elle UK. "Instead, Danes are good at focusing on what brings them a better quality of life".
The criminal justice system, when [it] fines or imprisons, ensures a person's basic needs are met – there can be no argument, moral or utilitarian, that justifies a policy of deliberate destitution".
For nearly 10 years, he has seen how African immigrants have gone from looking for a new start in an unwelcoming Europe to, more recently, Yemen, where their basic needs are met.
