In considering the absolute necessity of needs for our survival, the list is minimal. It’s the further expansion of our genius and lust for what others have that increase our desire for more.

And while there are pockets of backlash to this ever constant treadmill of increased “needs,” we cannot ignore progress. People travel, eat, communicate and have a desire (or so I hope) to keep healthy.

Which is where we enter into a conflict of discontent.

‘There’s what we need, what we want our needs to be, and a consideration of what others need. That consideration of others is our foundation for ethics, which has been a constant struggle to find the right balance. Somewhere between complete selfishness and altruism at the sake of the self is where we’re trying to land.

As a society, I don’t know if we will ever do it.

As an individual against society—almost impossible.

But, as an individual connecting with something deep within ourselves, beyond ourselves and outside the realm of rationality, a minimum is all we’d ever need.