The War of the Hierarchies: Maslow vs Central Inc.

Has the hierarchy that evolves from personal safety and security to personal fulfillment and actualization become incompatible with the hierarchical corporate order?

Mcleod, Saul Dr., Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

I came across Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs in a story by Scott C Dunn, A basic guaranteed income in the context of Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs.

The bottom two tiers used to be recognized by the controlling elite as necessary in maintaining civil contentment, while the top two tiers were oppressed in the masses by the policies designed by the top, particularly in centrally managed states, premised on societal hierarchical order.

Today the bottom two tiers of Maslow’s hierarchy of (individual) needs are under threat bringing the entire social hierarchical system to a tipping point.

Jan D Weir unravels the merging of financial markets and single-family homes in informed detail in his series on the housing crisis. (recommended reading) and Francesca Mari tells of a renters landlord nightmare in A $60 Billion Housing Grab by Wall Street in the New York Times. Alana Semuels writing for Atlantic tells a similar story in When Wall Street is …