Apparently I"m the last person to read Jane Jacobs's Systems of Survival. The two "syndromes" she sets out in the book, A & B, can be reduced roughly to two methods of acquisition: taking ("Moral Guardian Syndrome A) and trading (Commercial Syndrome B). Or consider the list of moral predispositions/precepts under each system:
A
Shun trading
Take
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 largess
Be exclusive
Show fortitude
Be fatalistic
Treasure honor
B
Shun force
Earn
Be efficient
Be open to inventiveness and novelty
Use initiative and enterprise
Come to voluntary agreements
Respect contracts
Dissent for the sake of the task
Be industrious
Be thrifty
Invest for productive purposes
Collaborate easily with strangers and aliens
Promote comfort and convenience
Be optimistic
Be honest
It's interesting to compare these two syndromes to our quintessential entrepreneurs and bureaucrats. It may also be valuable to map these atop the value typologies I described here (Wildavsky). But what is most interesting are the moral issues that arise when these value-sets get conflated or overlapped, much in the same way government and greed do not mix. So, anyway, if I'm not the last person to have read Systems of Survival, you should check it out.
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