Question

How far is it correct to say that money in your pocket cannot buy the basic needs to live well ? Explain.

CBSE Class X Social Science LA (5 Marks)

Answer 1

(i) Income by itself is not a completely adequate indicator.
(ii) Money cannot buy you a pollution free environment.
(iii) Money may also not be able to protect you from infectious diseases.
Therefore, the whole community needs to take preventive steps, i.e. :
(i) Collective security for the whole society.
(ii) Public facilities such as schools.
(iii) Public Distribution System in some states.
(iv) All can only be done collectively and not individually.

Answer 2

Answer:

Explanation:

(i) Money or material things that one can buy with it is one factor on which our life depends. But the quality of our life also depends upon non-material things like equal treatment, freedom, security, respect of others, etc.

(ii) Money cannot buy us a pollution free environment, unadulterated medicines, peace, etc.

(iii) There are many facilities like schools, colleges, parks, hospitals which an individual cannot afford. All these are to be provided by the government/society.

(iv) Money possessed by an individual even can not provide us a type of government which take decisions for the welfare of the common people.