sometimes explicitly include restrictions on freedoms and responsibilities in family and social life. 204. As for minimum wage levels, the form of minimimi entitlement most widely applied in Europe, they depend on the budgetary possibilities of the State and always tend rather to follow a logic of keeping to the minimum than of granting the means for future economic independence. As the beneficiaries put it, such wages enable one to survive but not to live. There is also the danger that people will remain tied to their particular status. In these circumstances it is difficult to establish a dynamic in which the rights lead on from one to the other and enable progress to be made. 205. In short, the danger of a "minimum content" certainly seems to be that it will rapidly result in a belittling of the aim of development of human dignity to which it should contribute. It should in a sense be the community's reply to the question asked by its poorest members; "In your eyes who are we? Are our hopes your hopes ... the ambitions which you have for your children and your young people, do we also dare to envisage them for ours?" There might then be an opportunity to enable the poorest to have access to all the human rights. 206. If a minimum content in the areas of economic, social and cultural rights were conceived as a group of fundamental rights simultaneously to be implemented whenever an individual, a family or a population group is threatened with poverty or social exclusion, so that they might be brought back into society with their heads held high, then such a minimvmi could be an instrument for promoting human rights. Instead of referring to the "minimimi 
**Analysis**
The text discusses the concept of minimum content in the areas of economic, social, and cultural rights, and its potential impact on promoting human rights, particularly for the poorest members of society. It highlights the limitations of minimum wage levels and the need for a more comprehensive approach to address poverty and social exclusion.

**Category**
Employment, Humanitarian aid and relief