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Abraham Maslow addressed the psychology of basic needs in the 1940's. http://www.simplypsychology.org/maslow.html http://www.simplypsychology.org/maslow.html

Abraham Maslow addressed the psychology of basic needs in the 1940's. http://www.simplypsychology.org/maslow.html http://www.simplypsychology.org/maslow.html The fear drive for basic needs is an innate motivational quality in humans that should not be artificially taken away. Only upon overcoming the fear of basic needs can a human evolve and pursue more enriching needs.

heckerboy 11y ago
>Only upon overcoming the fear of basic needs Why not just eliminate that in the first place and proceed directly to the "more enriching needs"?
- matchagaucho 11y ago
  The brain is a muscle. And much like physical muscles, there are consequences for inducing artificial growth. Time and again these experiments only prove that for 6-12 months the subjects are euphoric, creative, motivated... until they require the next level of enrichment, which they don't know how to achieve, because they've skipped "level 1" in the game of life.
eevilspock 11y ago
I totally agree. Children born into wealth and privilege are completely hobbled by the lack of this fear drive. We should institute 100% inheritance tax, and all children, rich or poor, should be taken away from their parents and raised in orphanages with only enough funds to keep them from outright starving or freezing to death.
- matchagaucho 11y ago
  Family wealth is typically lost within 3 generations. As the saying goes: “When a person with money meets a person with experience, the person with the experience winds up with the money and the person with the money winds up with the experience”.
rorykoehler 11y ago
You tell that to all the trust fund kids who go on to build global businesses? You're way off. Fear is a disabler. Many peer reviewed studies prove this. Stolen from another comment on this page: >Financial desperation squeezes the cognitive juice right out of you. In 2013, Harvard researchers did a study of how financial stress affects decision making. Denise Cummins, Ph.D. explains their findings in Psychology Today: "When the cost of [a car] repair was increased to $3,000, a very different picture emerged: The cognitive performance of those at the upper end of the income distribution was unaffected by the increase. But those at the lower end suffered a 40% decline! The authors interpreted this to mean that scarcity impaired people’s ability to think clearly. The threat—even an imagined threat—of a large bill made it difficult for poor people to focus on the cognitive tasks at hand." Financial stress impedes human thinking / problem solving. People get consumed by the short term challenges in front of them, and can’t see the big picture. Sources: http://www.sciencemag.org/content/341/6149/976 http://www.sciencemag.org/content/341/6149/976 http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/good-thinking/201309/why-having-too-little-leads-bad-decisions http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/good-thinking/201309/why...

heckerboy 11y ago

>Only upon overcoming the fear of basic needs Why not just eliminate that in the first place and proceed directly to the "more enriching needs"?

matchagaucho 11y ago
The brain is a muscle. And much like physical muscles, there are consequences for inducing artificial growth. Time and again these experiments only prove that for 6-12 months the subjects are euphoric, creative, motivated... until they require the next level of enrichment, which they don't know how to achieve, because they've skipped "level 1" in the game of life.

eevilspock 11y ago

I totally agree. Children born into wealth and privilege are completely hobbled by the lack of this fear drive. We should institute 100% inheritance tax, and all children, rich or poor, should be taken away from their parents and raised in orphanages with only enough funds to keep them from outright starving or freezing to death.

matchagaucho 11y ago
Family wealth is typically lost within 3 generations. As the saying goes: “When a person with money meets a person with experience, the person with the experience winds up with the money and the person with the money winds up with the experience”.

rorykoehler 11y ago

You tell that to all the trust fund kids who go on to build global businesses? You're way off. Fear is a disabler. Many peer reviewed studies prove this. Stolen from another comment on this page: >Financial desperation squeezes the cognitive juice right out of you. In 2013, Harvard researchers did a study of how financial stress affects decision making. Denise Cummins, Ph.D. explains their findings in Psychology Today: "When the cost of [a car] repair was increased to $3,000, a very different picture emerged: The cognitive performance of those at the upper end of the income distribution was unaffected by the increase. But those at the lower end suffered a 40% decline! The authors interpreted this to mean that scarcity impaired people’s ability to think clearly. The threat—even an imagined threat—of a large bill made it difficult for poor people to focus on the cognitive tasks at hand." Financial stress impedes human thinking / problem solving. People get consumed by the short term challenges in front of them, and can’t see the big picture. Sources: http://www.sciencemag.org/content/341/6149/976 http://www.sciencemag.org/content/341/6149/976 http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/good-thinking/201309/why-having-too-little-leads-bad-decisions http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/good-thinking/201309/why...