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Another discussion got me thinking - do we as a society have any concept of the true difference between needs and wants anymore or has our expectations for our lifestyles increased so much that our definition of the two have become skewed?  
 
I knwo for myself, I grew up dirt poor and sometimes didn't have the basics at home - as in food, electricity... as I grew and worked, my lifstyle increased dramatically based on my own personal effort and through some setbacks, fell down quite a few times. Now I find myself quite stable but my sone who is graduating this year remembers those hard times has has a very good concpt of how blessed we truly are. My daughter never really lived through that and as she gets older, I wonder what her perception will be.  
 
I am just wondering what people out there think are basic needs in today's society and if they really truly are.