需要

A need is something essential for a person's safe, healthy, and stable life—like air, water, food, shelter, or land—where lacking it causes serious harm or death, which distinguishes it from a want (a desire or wish that isn't essential). Understanding the difference between needs and wants matters because when people have the money to buy things, their needs and wants both become economic demands that shape markets and economies.

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