They wrote that reducing rare-earth exports would result in higher prices and would raise the question of energy and raw-materials security.
But it is also a function of a welfare system that allocates subsidies and material security to those with children.
This situation was easy enough to tolerate when the social order was delivering a baseline of material security.
Still, Lindsey believes that the new dimension of liberty — emancipation from the preoccupation with subsistence — has been a boon because material security has reduced "stress".
To people struggling for emotional and material security within their increasingly modern and fragmented societies, they offer the consolations of tradition, especially of family values.
But the neighborhood around them suggests a degree of material security that its equivalents in Camden, Detroit and Gary can, at this point, not even dream of.
The impulse of movies to think big and dark was probably spurred by the global financial crisis and the continuing recession, which have eroded a fundamental sense of material security and allowed a premonition of impending chaos to spread.
This may strike you as an abstract problem, and one that depends, for both its articulation and its proposed solution, on a high degree of material security and social entitlement.
This idea that -- that one's liberty is linked to one's livelihood, that the pursuit of happiness requires the dignity of work, the skills to find work, decent pay, some measure of material security -- this idea was not new.
In an essay titled "No risks now, folks!", Renate Köcher, director of the Allensbach opinion research institute, described voters as predominantly concerned with their own material security and "allergic to political reforms".
