The answer is: Conspicuous Consumption
Conspicuous consumption is the type of consumption that is not made to fulfill your basic needs to survive, it's made for sophistication or to increase your social status.
Jetting off to a remote destination for dinner is definitely very inefficient if the sole purpose is only to absorb necessary nutrients to your body. Sophistication or social status would most likely become the factors in such dinner activity.
Social grants
Advantage: This will provide other people's need into having them to be provided with assistance.
Disadvantage: Not all people are provided with the help they ask as it is only chosen by a specific organization or the government.
Free basic education
Advantage: This will help people to have education of which who couldn't afford financially and could be assisted by a specific organization or government.
Disadvantage: Sometimes it lacks or it does not provide everything of the person really needs of which he or she is still lacking such as having materials that are only limited for use.
Free health care
Advantage: Their is a specific variety of which assigned medical professionals will help other people to care for their needs.
Disadvantage: There is only a specific field of which they provide and not all of those who are sick can be tended to.
Housing
Advantage: They may be able to provide shelters to those who can't have a place to stay.
Disadvantage: They may be able to provide shelter but not enough of those components of which a person needs such as having electricity or water of which other places of specific organizations can't provide.
The completion in 1825 of the Erie Canal (below), connecting Lake Erie with the Hudson River, was an event of major importance in Michigan history because it greatly facilitated the transportation of passengers and freight between the eastern seaboard and Michigan ports.
