Work is the main social mechanism for distributing income, and therefore represents the main way most people meet their material needs.
The economist John Maynard Keynes imagined a 15-hour week by the beginning of the 21st century, because he thought we'd no longer have to work long hours to meet our material needs.
SouthLake pays for another member, Heather Huggitt, 26, to work full time at Roosevelt helping to meet the material needs of students who often lack sufficient food, clothing and school supplies.
Egalitarians, on the other hand, have often argued that redistribution through compulsory taxation and other coercively imposed measures is required to meet basic material needs or to promote other valuable social goals, and provide a legitimate, though perhaps not morally costless means of doing so.
While most young women engaged in it to meet basic material needs, many did so to seek beauty products, such as skin creams or "cool" clothes, or to accumulate business capital.
Instead of clustering extended households as collapsing under the strain of the epidemic, it is critical to recognise that some households may be emotionally and socially capable to care for children while not able to meet the material needs of children.
Aid agencies, stretched to the limit, have focused their limited resources on meeting the material needs of fleeing refugees, blankets, food and shelter.
Meeting basic material needs on a mass scale seemed much more compelling, and so did the idea of a whole new kind of society that transcended petty individualism.
The Internet, and especially microblogging platforms, have raised the consciousness of millions of Chinese who, having met their material needs, are looking for the opportunity to shape their country's future.
