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by dmichulke 3769 days ago
Yes, you're right and I would even add one case:

The things that people think they need. Be it plain consumerism or something cultural or social like honor, an iphone, a beautiful wife, a car for boys to impress girls or to go to work, a marriage before losing virginity.

In each of the above cases need in the survivalist sense and need in the subjective sense cannot be more different.

One will have a hard time arguing that those people don't need what we think they don't need.