Off the top of my head I'd include the following in basic quality of life (but not fundamental ability to live) these days:
* A little extra space in your dwelling
* Internet
* Access to nature
* Hot water
* Some means of transportation that grants you access to work, home, and recreation
* Leisure time beyond that needed to cook, clean, sleep, and exercise
* Some dietary variety
* Any functioning smartphone
* Access to community
* A modest amount of extra money for recreation
* Any vacation time
* Access to heat/cooling beyond the bare minimum
* Access to education
* More than one choice in a job
* A bed that doesn't hurt you
The list could likely be trimmed or made narrower, and there are likely things I'm not thinking of, but you get the idea. Nothing extravegent or necessarily expensive, just a few things beyond the absolute bare minimum a human needs to survive. Basically, I think everyone should have access to three major things:
1. The necessities of survival
2. A few extras to allow the unmotivated and unambitious to be sustainably content and not truly miserable from true deprivation (so, like, evaluate human needs the way a modern ethical zoo evaluates animal needs rather than a historical abusive menagerie would).
3. Access to tools and resources for the sufficiently ambitious to reasonably improve their situation without making excessive sacrifices from point 1 or 2.
Does any of that strike you as unreasonable or unachievable?
* A little extra space in your dwelling * Internet * Access to nature * Hot water * Some means of transportation that grants you access to work, home, and recreation * Leisure time beyond that needed to cook, clean, sleep, and exercise * Some dietary variety * Any functioning smartphone * Access to community * A modest amount of extra money for recreation * Any vacation time * Access to heat/cooling beyond the bare minimum * Access to education * More than one choice in a job * A bed that doesn't hurt you
The list could likely be trimmed or made narrower, and there are likely things I'm not thinking of, but you get the idea. Nothing extravegent or necessarily expensive, just a few things beyond the absolute bare minimum a human needs to survive. Basically, I think everyone should have access to three major things: 1. The necessities of survival 2. A few extras to allow the unmotivated and unambitious to be sustainably content and not truly miserable from true deprivation (so, like, evaluate human needs the way a modern ethical zoo evaluates animal needs rather than a historical abusive menagerie would). 3. Access to tools and resources for the sufficiently ambitious to reasonably improve their situation without making excessive sacrifices from point 1 or 2.
Does any of that strike you as unreasonable or unachievable?