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Original research and thinking on human development
Rethinking Maslow
Breaking with a hierarchy of scarcity to cultivate neuroecological abundance. By Milo de Prieto, November, 2025 In 1943, Abraham Maslow proposed that human needs exist in a hierarchy, a model later famously codified into a pyramid. This visual suggested a rigid, stacked system: if basic needs for food and shelter were unmet, higher cognitive functions […]
