Problem
Overemphasis on immediate superficial needs
Other Names:
Superfluous needsImmediate needs mentality
Claim:
The technological community's emphasis upon the concept of growth as the embodiment of progress and its stress on efficiency for its own sake results in an impulsive reaction to the immediate and merely superficial needs of society. The understanding of progress as development is thwarted; and any effective anticipation and meeting of long-range, deeply-rooted needs is ultimately lost. Technology has thus created a self-perpetuating system which creates a market for its products by responding primarily to its own inner needs.
Broader Problems:
Uncoordinated expression of needsInsensitivity to non-immediate hazards to societyLack of relationship between social techniques and the needs they address Narrower Problems:
Personal need for recognitionFailure to plan for long-term consumer needs Aggravates:
Crisis-oriented fundingProduction of non-essentialsUnnecessary personal consumptionPursuit of short-term gratificationInadequate response to societal needsMarket indicators' exclusion of human requirements Strategies:
Altering immediacy syndromeEmphasizing immediate superficial needsDeepening understanding of needs Values:
OveremphasisSuperficiality Problem Type:
F: Fuzzy exceptional problems Subject(s):
Amenities → Living conditionsPsychology → Psychology
Policy-making → Policy
Related UN Sustainable Development Goals:
Date of last update
21.12.2017 – 17:28 CET