Quote: (10-28-2017 05:15 PM)gework Wrote:
There is an alternative to organising society based on grievances or dominance - competence - the organisation of society around people who earn their place by exchanging value. Those that produce the most value rise to the top. When it arose as an organising force is society it created incredible wealth over what came before it.
Once those competent folks in this alternative organizational view rise to the top, they'll want to fulfill their fanciest desires as they seemingly now deserve it after all of that productive competence.
Then that creates industries full of [non-traditional-competence] which can lead back to grievances/dominance, or other realms.
Why? Because:
Quote: (10-28-2017 05:15 PM)gework Wrote:
The second point to establish is that people's behaviour is geared towards extracting things that they value. Some people value cutting their arms open for attention or some other neurotic reason; some want to be rich; some want to feel they are a good person; some want access to sex with as many beautiful women as possible and so on. Sometimes that value can be abstract, such as those who self-deprecate by putting others first or those who make sacrifices for their children. I would argue that they only act in this way because they find value in doing so as non-material (the latter) and neurotic-self-destruction (the former).
In the end, regardless of personality type, people will generate wants and psychological needs from somewhere other than a desire for progress or enhanced competency. Others will rise up to meet those needs... vices, exploitation, victims, perps.