Posted by garnet71 on February 21, 2009, at 14:43:45
In reply to Re: Self-Actualization - Maslow's hierarchy of nee, posted by SLS on February 21, 2009, at 14:14:27
"The beauty of the paradigm is that people occupy multiple levels at the same time. There is no real "graduation" from one level to the next"
I agree you can be on multiple levels, and to add to that, its pretty undeniable that if you are spending most of your time/mental energy at the lower levels, there is less time/mental energy for the higher levels.
Income, in the US, is correlated (or causal) with educational obtainment and sucess. The most prominent indicator of future sucess (however they define success) is whether or not your parents had graduated from college. This has been proven time and time again.
Thats why when human beings invented collective agriculture (as opposed to hunting and gathering), they had more time to pursue art and intellectual endeavors and we have evolved from there. The Agricultural Age was a huge milestone in cultural progress.
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