Maslow never represented his hierarchy of needs as a pyramid. Further, here's what he wrote 23 years later:

"self-actualization is not enough. Personal salvation and what is good for the person alone cannot be really understood in isolation. The good of other people must be invoked as well as the good for oneself. It is quite clear that purely inter-psychic individualist psychology without reference to other people and social conditions is not adequate."

https://www.resilience.org/stories/2021-06-18/the-blackfoot-wisdom-that-inspired-maslows-hierarchy/ #maslow 🧵

The Blackfoot Wisdom that Inspired Maslow’s Hierarchy

Whereas American narratives focus on the individual, the Blackfoot way of life offers an alternative of a community that leaves no one behind

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@feijoa Are you aware of Manfred Max-Neef's needs and satisfiers? There are several key articles over the years, the first of which was:

Max-Neef, M. A. (1989). Development and human needs. In Human scale development: Conception, application and further reflections (pp. 197–214).