| Can buy | Can't buy |
|---|
| Brand clothes | Self-esteem |
| Fancy mobile phone | Friends |
| Strong bodyguards | Sense of security |
| Best surgeon | Own genetic material |
| Subordinates | Respect |
| Top school | Wisdom |
| Internet access | A meaningful improving network |
| Religious symbols | Realistic introspection |
| Judgment through corruption | Honesty and integrity |
| Services of a prostitute | Physical and emotional intimacy |
According to Maslow's hierarchy of needs, if you can still buy your happyness, your are still down the pyramid.You can buy your way up (but it's not necesseary) only to a certain point.
To do
- add symbols or proxy for values that one can buy to demonstrate the possession of a quality
- i.e. buying physical good that shows you are at level N+1 rather than you current N
- examples virtual-economy.org , luxury goods, ...
- order the table to follow the pyramid order, use the same colors
- You're Not Your Fucking Khakis, Fight Club
- What money can't buy by Michael Walzer
- Money and Commodities, excerpt from Spheres of Justice
- not that findings in cognitive science seems to show that re-wiring, even at the neurological level, might have occurred to the point that inferences from older animals become inaccurate.
Fabien Benetou's PIM
