What makes the poor happy?

If utopia is a place where even the poor is happy, what do we need to meet this minimum requirement?

What makes the poor happy, is probably the same as what makes everyone else happy:

1. to have met the basic needs for food, shelter, safety
2. to have the love and support of family and friends
3. to feel a sense of belonging in the greater community
4. to contribute in a meaningful way to others
5. to know that living has made a difference

Some smart person has actually wrote a thesis on the hierarchy of self-actualization, but I can't recall it exactly, and don't feel like looking it up. I am sure it is easy to google.

Most socialist countries attempt to provide for minimum basic needs, like food and shelter. Depending on the justice system, most people also feel safe.

The universally increasing divorce rate, and the ever climbing percentage of people living alone, combined with the stubbornly persistant high rate of children living in poverty, all point to the great distance we have to achieve utopia.

Global village or not, each individual probably feel more alienated from the rest of society than they were a few decades ago. Hence the popularity of Friends on television, and SMS among friends. Of all the relationships, friendship has adapted best to the new electronic age.

As Walt Whitman, I believe, once said, the majority of us live lives of quiet desperation. The poor, especially, live from day to day, lonely and despairing.

What can society, and the richest 5% of society, do to ensure utopia is real?