If you had to choose for one of the following World Wide to be free which would it be?

Electricity-most of the others are either unimportant or already covered by most socialist societies (including mine!!!).

Clean drinking water is the greatest necessity on that list. A society can still function with sick people, dumb people, homeless people, even hungry people, but if they don't have water they'll either die out or move to the next closest country.

Education lets the next generation get the other things.

Not having to pay for electricity would save me a LOT of money.

....But I am Darkseid. :(

Education easily. As a US citizen it boggles my mind why we think its a good idea to force 90% of kids who've just turned 18 to go into tens of thousands of dollars into debt in order to get a college eduction.

I chose shelter.

Education, always education.

@cara_hunter why couldn't food be one category?

Because how will the farmers pay for their water,electricity if they don't get any money now that food is free?

Did anybody READ THE OP?

You have to think of the consequences of something being 100% free.

Brazzers yearly subscriptions

edumacation. at the very least people might figure out to stop having too many damn kids which thus increases the need for more horses and such

or maybe just go straight at some hard pressed contraception :)

Electricity.

@no_trolling: you know whats up...No pun intended.

Anyways Clean Water is priority ONE, there are many people without it. With clean water, people would not have as many diseases and sickness. The close seconds are Medical and Education.

Education, it will equalize the playing field even if just a bit

I choose Education
but Medline and Food should be there too.

I assume water means clean water and that it would be accessible? Having water in some parts of the world would do them much better than medicine, because water can actually be a luxury, unfortunately. It's the main ingredient in keeping us alive, so I'm gonna go with that.

Probably health care.

either education or health care.

horses...I feel like that is a no brainer

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Education. Just imagine what everyone could do with some good learning in them.

LOL!

Medicine/Medical Treatment/Medical Aid

I know education is also expensive but Medicine/Medical Treatment/Medical Aid can happen at any time of your life. These are also expenses that comes as a surprise too that it would really affect our everyday budget.

Education is free if you go to public school(minus supplies if you count that) but once you hit college then you sadly have to pay....unless you're uber smart and can get a grant.

But I chose Shelter because electricity isn't necessary and do you know how much you'd save if living in a house would be free?! Especially where I live lol in NYC the most expensive part of the entire USA to live.

Exactly my logic. But I could see why people voted for the other things. All are very important

I was thinking if all the negative consequences and I think Water I'd the best choice.

Education would be second. I was debating on education but what's the point to have kids be able to get an education if they're dying of thirst.

I'll say medical would be third choice. Again thinking about the negative I feel like Water, Education, and Medical would benefit humans the most with the least consequences.

Totally, a few on the list are very important but yeah same. I tried thinking what would be a priority or worse you know?

Education, the rest can be achieved through that.

Provided it is a proper education I would go with education, other wise it would just be a waste of time.

Medicine/Medical Treatment/Medical Aid would probably be the number 1 thing I'd go for but it's sorta a cheat... Having proper medical treatment would mean food and water and shelter.

The reason we don't have good food/water/shelter/medical treatment/electricity/education everywhere is highly due to proper infrastructure and lack of caring or lack of knowing that's the problem. We currently produce 4 times as much food as it would to take to feed the entire world properly. Fresh water is either already solved or currently really close to being solved. So if we're going from right this second and having something suddenly be there, those two things would both require infrastructure and so that would have to be there...

@edamame: Yep, great post lol. Even medicare to a degree is overrated if you take care of yourself well to a degree could be limited. But yeah living in NYC=pricey lol

1. Clean accessible water

2. Education

3. Shelter

Medicine. Everywhere in the world people get extremely sick or injured and a lot of people don't have proper doctors or medical treatment even if it is supplied for free. Electricity (which in second place for some reason) is not that important. There are plenty of people and societies that do perfectly fine without it. Electricity is a luxury, not a necessity.

Clean water is a big one, so is shelter. Education is fine but what's the point if you can't actually stay alive. Also what kind of education are we talking about? Because there are many different kinds of education which would provide people with a whole host different skills and options in the future. Or is it just every kind of education imaginable and the person in question chooses their path. Also every country has their own brand of curriculum of what and what isn't important. Plus in this scenario Darkseid is making us choose and I feel like choosing education would be a bad idea with him in charge lol.

Seriously though there are all kinds of different fields of education and the OP says nothing about one set of unified education, and even if it did I would say that it would be a bad thing because of different cultures values and their beliefs would clash with whatever set education standards was in place. On the flip side of that with every nation having different ideas and values everybody would be taught different things, and keep in mind many Nations do not exactly have what would be considered stable government's so their nations curriculum could change overnight. There are Nation's whose leader's make homosexuality illegal. I don't mean marriage I mean the simple fact of being gay is illegal and you can be put to death for that in some of those places. As for the idea of one set standard education throughout the world, which nation or nations get to choose it?

Water.

The thing with Shelter though is the idea of NY being the most expensive place to live in the USA... WHY? Because everyone wants to live in NY... just like Cali... ahem... anyways...

I have a lot of friends who have moved to Arizona, Texas, and/or Colorado because it is cheaper to live there. We are already packed soooo... Why wouldn't housing be expensive in NY if it was equally cheap to live in NY or Iowa... why wouldn't you move to NY?

I know it sucks to be homeless. I been homeless it's terrible but I just view medicine(free health care), Water(clean accessible), and education (the dept is crazy) more important than shelter. For me.

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Free love, man

Education is already free. Pick up a book and start reading. Why pay just to be fed Marxist dogma in the Western education system?

So many posters are responding with only their country/region in mind. Interesting.

Education by far, like the other posters who mentioned it leading to attaining the other options in the poll.

This is a tricky question because most of these things are so different in nature and some of these things have more working and more complicated components that have more variables that depending on those variables can lead to dramatically different outcomes. Education for example is already free, its good education that usually requires money, and usually it requires a lot of money to get a piece of paper at the end of that education. Water? There is a huge difference between free water and free clean water as well as access to free clean water. What does free water mean? People can ask for it and it will drop down from the sky? Those who have access to it can take it without a price?

Everything started off "free" things have a price because things have a perceived and intrinsic value and things have a value because they are limited. In this situation are things made free somehow always going to be free? Or once made free are all bets off in which what ever given commodity will once again have a price? If they remain free then well thats a lot of complications. That commodity would have to be infinite. Infinite horses? Well that deals with hunger and transport and potentially energy, electricity, shelter and horse pie well... with those things more people would be freed up to do other things include pursue careers in occupations that aren't made redundant by the infinite food etc of horses - so we could end up with more doctors. Education would get cheaper too and in some cases be free.

There are so many strange and kooky inevitabilities basically any option picked would probably be balanced our or neutralized by its own implications. I'd probably flip Darksied a finger and tell him Marvel is where its at and watch him fall down some stairs.

Electricity along with water are one of the things that people use every day so any of those two should be free.The world right now almost can not exist without electricity or water so we need those things and with every day they are getting more and more expensive.

So,free electricity and water all the way!

Pie and Horses are the most ludicrous choices on there

that's some 'ish models would say on their speech!

wow. people are picking the least important things. how about medical aid? people are choosing electricity? really??!!?!! water!??! 'here timmy have a glass of free water which we got from a stream down the road. but it's free now. now about your cancer treatment. we will need you to sell a kidney.'

I think the assumption is that the water is clean water....which cannot be found in a lot of places worldwide.

Education

Cake.