Posted on 03/07/2017 12:55:09 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
Humans have needs, but we need some things more than others.
Back in the 1940s, American psychologist Abraham Maslow famously classified human needs into a hierarchy, often shown as a pyramid.
At the foundation are our physiological needs: air, water, food, etc. Only when these needs are met can we reach upward to more and more refined stages of material, intellectual, emotional, and spiritual fulfillment.
You could say, the very existence of civilization depends on the stability of the bottom layer. It’s thus no accident that a huge part of the economy exists to fill these basic needs.
Even smart people can forget this. One person who doesn’t forget—and has used it to accomplish amazing things—is President Donald Trump.
Presidential Endorsement
Last week at the White House, President Trump and his economic advisors met with a group of manufacturing company executives. They discussed how to create jobs and promote exports.
After some opening remarks, the guests introduced themselves to the president. Here’s an excerpt from the official White House transcript.
FRAZIER: Thank you, Mr. President, it’s good to be here. Ken Frazier from Merck & Co., Inc.
FIELDS: Thank you, Mr. President. Mark Fields, CEO of Ford Motor Company.
MORRISON: Thank you, Mr. President. Denise Morrison from Campbell Soup Company.
THE PRESIDENT: Good soup.
MORRISON: Thank you.
I’m not making this up. President Trump’s first thought, on meeting the head of Campbell Soup, was to tell everyone he likes their soup.
Note also, the president did not respond to Merck’s leader with “Good pills,” or to the Ford CEO with “Good cars.” But Campbell got a “Good soup.”
Thinking of Maslow’s hierarchy, this makes perfect sense....
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Basic needs are priority. Heard a reporter ask Spicer this morning if poor people will have to give up their iPhones so they can afford to pay for the new proposed healthcare. Not making this up.
Maslow’s hierarchy of needs is valid on a sociological/cultural level. It begins to break down as it is applied to individuals. Personal values become increasingly altruistic as morality increases.
A father may starve to provide for his children.
An artist may forego personal comfort to pursue artistic perfection.
An entrepreneur may postpone all sorts of personal gratification to fulfill their dream.
Altruism is only one aspect of human dynamics. Starvation, discomfort, lack of hygeine, addiction and other forms of self denial can stem from a wide range of personal dynamics.
Sounds like a condensed remark
Chaffetz: Americans may need to choose health care over new iPhones
http://nypost.com/2017/03/07/chaffetz-americans-may-need-to-choose-healthcare-over-new-iphones/
Maslow’s hierarchy of needs
Personally, I think the Peter Principle has more application.
It’s going to be tough to compete with the San Joaquin valley and free sunshine.
Of course, the state of California will likely tax the “sunshine acre” to pay for the lights in inner city warehouse “farms”.
That’s what they do.
They do stupid better than any entity in the universe.
Had a guy in credit and collections under my supervision who wrote Campbell’s soup as they owed our grain company a lot of money. After an entire page of threatening language if they didn’t pay up, he signed his name, title and added a P.S. “Campbell’s Soup Really is Um, Um Good”. Employee was terminated by our regional manager without delay.
Trump had nice words for several of the CEOs, just not if their competition was sitting right there or it would impact ongoing negotiations.
Guess you could say he got canned
If we stop burning our fuel for motor fuel it will go a long way.
Toooooooo funny.
Abolish welfare and those American workers will be there. We will have to go through some rioting but even rioters get hungry after a very little time.
Yep, and i doubt even sore ass is willing to feed millions free loaders for the rest of their lives.
“Yep, and i doubt even sore ass is willing to feed millions free loaders for the rest of their lives.”
He will feed them until they are no longer useful.
Not one day more or less.
When they are no longer useful he will have them loaded into the cattle cars along with the few remaining patriots.
The technology of agriculture, the tending of plants and animals for the purpose of growing a reasonably reliable food supply for current and future needs of the society, is the basis of much of civilization. From the determination to remain in one relatively fixed location, to the development of the supply line infrastructure, and the resulting problems of keeping growing numbers of human beings in one locality for extended periods of time, the much more complex rules of living together completely swamped the old tribal customs of wandering nomads.
A nation that ignores or fails to adequately support a productive agricultural industry is a nation soon in desperate poverty and become a failed state, rendered helpless in the face of more assertive neighbors. This is why many countries, trying to remain self-sufficient in food production, do not accept even very favorable trade agreements in which they may get very low-cost food from trading partners, because of how uncertain that makes their own self-sufficiency if there is a quarrel or outright hostility from those very prolific neighbors. And once dependent of this cheap supply of food, their own production falls into decline and may very nearly cease altogether.
Indoor farming will just change things is a way most people don’t realize. Cities will become food independent.
The population that the earth can support will 10-100 times.
Indoor farming will give people the 200-500 year window needed to develop the technology to get to the stars. In that 200-500 year window indoor farming will make it possible to farm the deserts of earth the moon and mars.
“Indoor farming will give people the 200-500 year window needed to develop the technology to get to the stars. “
We could already have gone to the stars but we’ve been busy supporting millions of people whose only skill seems to be breeding.
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