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I missed it the first time round (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9913774 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9913774). This aligns with Maslow's Hierarc

• tezza 11y ago
  Maslow says that the layers overlap and that one does not need 100% of a lower level before one starts reaching for higher layer. http://psychclassics.yorku.ca/Maslow/motivation.htm http://psychclassics.yorku.ca/Maslow/motivation.htm Degree of relative satisfaction. -- So far, our theoretical discussion may have given the impression that these five sets of needs are somehow in a step-wise, all-or-none relationships to each other. We have spoken in such terms as the following: "If one need is satisfied, then another emerges." This statement might give the false impression that a need must be satisfied 100 per cent before the next need emerges. In actual fact, most members of our society who are normal, are partially satisfied in all their basic needs and partially unsatisfied in all their basic needs at the same time.
  • metasean 11y ago
    From the same source (highlighting mine): Human needs arrange themselves in hierarchies of pre-potency. That is to say, the appearance of one need usually rests on the prior satisfaction of another, more pre-potent need. Man is a perpetually wanting animal. Also no need or drive can be treated as if it were isolated or discrete; every drive is related to the state of satisfaction or dissatisfaction of other drives.