The Encyclopedia
of World Problems
& Human Potential

Overemphasis on self-sufficiency with respect to interdependence

Visualization of narrower problems

Name(s):

Non-participatory financial priorities

Self-centred business

Individualized trading patterns

Individualized marketing practices

Fragmented marketing practices

Individualistic land holding

Individualistic economic practices

Individualism as a restriction of effectiveness

Nature

An extreme emphasis on the importance of self-sufficiency causes the individual to underestimate his interdependence with others across the world. Education, welfare programmes, international relations and ethics all share this extreme position, blinding individual and social relations alike to the fact that interdependence is equally important as self-sufficiency.

Broader

Unbridled individualism

Deficient communal mandate

Fragmented agricultural development

Narrower

Uneconomical small farms

Undercutting vendor price

Preferred individual labour

Overemphasis on individual rights

Prejudicial community self-reliance

Paralysis in individual decision-making

Erosion of collective memory in traditional cultures

Misrepresentation of self-sufficiency as socially responsible

Reduces

Dependence on social welfare

International economic interdependence

Isolation of neighbourhood shopping facilities

Aggravates

Being a burden

Uncohesive business community

Short-term profit maximization ^{[in 17 loops]}

Deteriorating rural community cooperation ^{[in 25 loops]}

Undeveloped channels for commercial initiative ^{[in 13 loops]}

Ineffectiveness of tradition-bound small business methods ^{[in 1 loop]}

Aggravated by

Capitalist speculation

Self-interested industrial vision

Breakdown in community security systems

Inappropriate emphasis on prestige technology

Strategy(ies)

Homesteading

Promoting individualism

Setting financial priorities

Restricting effectiveness

Holding industrial vision

Integrating marketing practices

Behaving individualistically

Promoting self

Reference(s)

Peck, M Scott: The Different Drum: community making and peace

Type

(F) Fuzzy exceptional problems

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The Encyclopedia of World Problems and Human Potential is a unique, experimental research work of the Union of International Associations. It is currently published as a searchable online platform with profiles of world problems, action strategies, and human values that are interlinked in novel and innovative ways. These connections are based on a range of relationships such as broader and narrower scope, aggravation, relatedness and more. By concentrating on these links and relationships, the Encyclopedia is uniquely positioned to bring focus to the complex and expansive sphere of global issues and their interconnected nature.

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