[wdmeldon]

> All of your needs as a human being are met. All of the needs of your friends and family are met. Can you not imagine how much easier it would be to advance toward a "social utopia"?

This is the case for basically everyone I know, and I'd imagine this being the case for a lot of the people here. But we're not advancing to a social utopia.

[XorNot]

There's a loooooong way you can fall in our society.

Until that floor is a lot closer to what we call "middle class" you're not going to realize many social benefits.

[st3v3r]

Is it? Most of us are one major medical disaster away from being bankrupt. And losing your job generally would throw all that out the window.