 Note that “functionings” here include welfarist concerns, such as “being happy”, but are not confined to such concerns. A person’s capability is then defined by Sen as their power to achieve functionings: “a set of vectors of functionings, reflecting the person’s freedom to lead one type of life or another” (Sen 1992: 40). On Sen’s view, then, we should assess how well off a person is by looking at how far they possess a range of important capabilities. These might include a capability for welfare in either or both senses defined above, but will not be restricted to this one capability. A social minimum is understood as the bundle of resources necessary to endow people with a decent basic range and level of capabilities in this sense.