Overemphasis on self-sufficiency with respect to interdependence

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.

1. Unbridled individualism
2. Fragmented agricultural development
3. Deficient communal mandate

1. Uneconomical small farms
2. Undercutting vendor price
3. Prejudicial community self-reliance
4. Preferred individual labour
5. Paralysis in individual decision-making
6. Overemphasis on individual rights
7. Misrepresentation of self-sufficiency as socially responsible
8. Erosion of collective memory in traditional cultures

1. Undeveloped channels for commercial initiative
2. Uncohesive business community
3. Short-term profit maximization
4. Ineffectiveness of tradition-bound small business methods
5. Deteriorating rural community cooperation
6. Being a burden

1. Self-interested industrial vision
2. Self-image unrelated to the external world
3. Self-centred security image
4. Private ownership
5. Lack of human unity
6. Interdependence
7. Inappropriate emphasis on prestige technology
8. Counter-dependency
9. Capitalist speculation
10. Breakdown in community security systems

1. Isolation of neighbourhood shopping facilities
2. International economic interdependence
3. Dependence on social welfare

1. Trivialization of human creativity
2. Dominance of economic motives

1. Setting financial priorities
2. Restricting effectiveness
3. Promoting self
4. Promoting individualism
5. Integrating marketing practices
6. Homesteading
7. Holding industrial vision
8. Behaving individualistically

1. Restriction
2. Nonparticipatory
3. Individualism
4. Overemphasis
5. Fragmentation
6. Selfishness