The Commercial and Guardian Syndromes
Created July 2, 1998
Taken from Systems of Survival,
by Jane Jacobs.
The Commercial Moral Syndrome
- Shun force
- Come to voluntary agreements
- Be honest
- Collaborate easily with strangers and aliens
- Compete
- Respect contracts
- Use initiative and enterprise
- Be open to inventiveness and novelty
- Be efficient
- Promote comfort and convenience
- Dissent for the sake of the task
- Invest for productive purposes
- Be industrious
- Be thrifty
- Be optimistic
- Shun trading
- Exert prowess
- Be obedient and disciplined
- Adhere to tradition
- Respect hierarchy
- Be loyal
- Take vengeance
- Deceive for the sake of the task
- Make rich use of leisure
- Be ostentatious
- Dispense largesse
- Be exclusive
- Show fortitude
- Be fatalistic
- Treasure honor
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