Interesting correlation. : )
What you wrote is quite similar to Maslow's hierarchy of needs:
To your more practical approach to human needs, I would like to add medicine and safety.
Both medicine and safety can be applied to Steemit by its witnesses, whales and dolphins through:
- Manual curation of high-quality content
- Protection from unfair flagging and other potential abuse
- Flagging of spam comments and posts.
But this can't really be applied by most of the users, so you have actually given the most useful advice for the 95% of us.
Cheers! : )
I see Maslow's hierarchy is based on emotional needs. Under all the things I mentioned, they affect our emotions in some way our other, especially in bad times. Yes our inner spirits also have to be nourished.
Maslow claimed that until the physiological needs (such as air, water, food) are met, we consider them the most important ones. Once the physiological needs are met, until safety the needs are met (protection from physical harm by other people or animals), they become the most important for us. This continues until the top of the pyramid.
But, as you said, every met or unmet need affects our emotions. That's one of the main cons of his theory actually, he was very exclusive, while in the reality everything is more interconnected.
Cheers! : )
I love it when people put in their penny's worth. Yes, there is a lot more to life than the basic norms. That's what I love about life. There is always another angle to a fact. And that is what I like using in my blogs. It gets people thinking and exploring beyond what is and what people expect.