What is Want?
{{split-apart|date=April 2013}} [[Image:A Christmas Carol - Ignorance and Want.jpg|thumb|Want and Ignorance -two poor children in Dickens' novel]] A '''want''' is a [[wikt:wish|wish]] or a [[wikt:desire|desire]] for something. If a person would like to have something, but can choose not to have it, that thing is wanted or can be called a want. To want is not the same as to [[need]], which is when someone ''must'' have something. People often talk about needing a thing, when they really just want it. Wants can be for the same things as needs. For example, a person can ''need'' to eat food and can ''want'' to eat cake. If there is no cake then he or she may have to eat something else, perhaps bread. The need is no longer so important (the person is no longer [[hungry]]) although the want may still be there. If there is cake, then the person's needs and wants can both be met. In [[economics]], a want is about [[Product (consumer goods)|goods]] or [[service economy|service]]s. [[Choice]] is how to [[satisfaction|satisfy]] a want, when there are different ways to do this. Want can also be the idea of what it means to be [[Poverty|poor]], [[Starvation|hungry]] or with no [[money]]. [[Charles Dickens]] wrote a famous book called ''[[A Christmas Carol]]'' in which there are two children, named Want and [[Ignorance]]. [[Category:Psychology]] [[Category:Society]]