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Maslow identifies at the lowest level of his pyramid:
- Breathing (Respiration)
- Drinking
- Eating
- Excretion (Feces, Urine)
- Sleep (Resting)
- Shelter (Warmth, Life)
The funny thing is that, apart from breathing, we have to pay for the other ones. They are all more or less in our household budget.
I wonder when breathing will become a necessary part of our budget. E.g. to pay a certain amount of money to be able to pay for clean air. If that moment is there then we have fully capatalized the society.
drinking
We already pay for “drinking” (yearly regional water taxes), on top of that we have some more fun by buying more expensive drinks at the supermarket (e.g. coca cola, coffee, thee, beer). I wonder where that fits in the pyramid?
(If it does not fit that could well be since this pyramid approach has never been proven and is most likely false)
disclaimer: note that the pyramid is a fool’s dream
Conducted in 2002, a recent study forwards this line of thought, claiming that "the hierarchy of needs is nothing more than a fool’s daydream; there is no possible way to classify ever-changing needs as society changes"[6] 9/Submit.[unreliable source? Submit]Chilean economist and philosopher Manfred Max Neef 1/1 has also argued fundamental human needs 0/299 are non-hierarchical, and are ontologically 1/1,080 universal and invariant in nature – part of the condition of being human; poverty 2/62, he argues, is the result of any one of these needs being frustrated, denied or unfulfilled.
Well… still I would like to know where my coffee fits in 
