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[–] piranhaconda@mander.xyz 23 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

Well would you look at that, it sure does.

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2452292924000493

Recent empirical studies have established the minimum set of specific goods and services that are necessary for people to achieve decent-living standards (DLS), including nutritious food, modern housing, healthcare, education, electricity, clean-cooking stoves, sanitation systems, clothing, washing machines, refrigeration, heating/cooling, computers, mobile phones, internet, transit, etc. This basket of goods and services has been developed through an extensive literature (e.g., Rao and Min, 2017, Rao et al., 2019) and is summarized in Table 1, following Millward-Hopkins (2022).

[–] ExLisper@lemmy.curiana.net 9 points 11 months ago

Looking at Table 1 that's definitely acceptable. It skips a lot of things but that's why they say 30% with spare room for luxuries.