Luxury Vs. Necessity: What You Want Isn't Always What You Need

Have you every looked around and thought about what you have? Everyday we depend on man-made objects and services that not too long ago were not available at our beck and call. Our necessities to survive consist of the three basics; food, water, and shelter. For hundreds of years, our ancestors hunted for food, drank water from rivers or streams, and found shelter in the nearest cave or under a well covered tree. Now, in the present time we have people that their daily job is farming or hunting in order for someone else to collect the food then someone else makes the food presentable then someone else packages it then someone else ships it and in turn all we have to do is walk into a grocery store, pick up what we want and purchase it. Same goes for water, we have man made machines that filter out the water to make it clean for drinking and it is either fed into our homes through pipelines or bottled and purchased at the same grocery store. As for shelter, construction workers and other such people build our homes so we can purchase them.

The three basics of life have been handed to us on a silver platter and there is more that we are used to and expecting of this country and its companies.

I work for a very large company that provides satellite television service. Television is a luxury item, it is not a necessity, but everyday I speak with people who make the common phrase; "I need my television" or "What are my kids going to do without any television"? This angers me to no extent. You do not need television. Televisions became commercially available in the late 1930's and if you think about it, that wasn't too long ago. Televisions have assisted us in learning, keeping us up to date with current events, as well as causing our population to depend on a talking picture tube box to baby-sit our children and teach them the morals and or not so moral lifestyle that they should or should not be living.