2988: Maslow's Pyramid

Maslow's Pyramid

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Title text: The local police, building inspector, and fire marshal are all contesting my 'safety' assertion, or would be if they could reach me past all the traps.

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In this comic, Cueball has physically built a pyramid that resembles a common representation of Maslow’s hierarchy of needs.

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[Cueball is facing White Hat and Megan and pointing to a giant pyramid modeled after Maslow's hierarchy of needs, with each tier labeled after its need on the pyramid, and a comment next to it in the comic. From top to bottom:]

Self-actualization: [Red X] Honestly questioning my life choices here

Esteem: [Red X] People seem less impressed by it than I hoped

Belonging and Love: [Red X] Friends are worried about me

Safety: [Green Checkmark] Highly defensible

Physiological needs: [Red X] Provides basic shelter but no food, water, heat, etc

[Caption below the panel:]

I built Maslow's pyramid thing, but it's a total ripoff - it's only providing 20% of my needs.

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Oh wow, first post! RadiantRainwing (talk) 23:11, 20 September 2024 (UTC)

Congratulations on learning how to post! 172.68.245.228 03:40, 21 September 2024 (UTC)

1258: First. Heh. P?sych??otic?pot??at???o (talk) 16:00, 8 October 2024 (UTC)

The 20% figure is incorrect. The lower levels of the pyramid have more volume than the upper levels. By my arithmetic, the breakdown is (rounded) 1%, 6%, 15%, 30%, and 49%, so the "safety" level provides 30% of his needs. Jordan Brown (talk) 00:27, 21 September 2024 (UTC)

Plus the bottom layer ought to get partial credit for supplying basic shelter. Jordan Brown (talk) 00:29, 21 September 2024 (UTC)

I question this Cueball's ability to get anything okay enough. -- 172.70.38.122 (talk) 03:32, 21 September 2024 (please sign your comments with ~~~~)

Seems like he's judging each layer on a pass-fail basis, no partial credit. So the bottom layer fails because it only provides shelter, but no food or water. Like a crypt, which is what the Egyptian pyramids were for. Barmar (talk) 18:19, 21 September 2024 (UTC)

Oh crud. What did I do that I think totally messed up the attributions? 172.68.245.228 172.68.245.228 03:53, 21 September 2024 (UTC)

I think you probably put some ~s in the wrong places? 162.158.41.181 19:01, 21 September 2024 (UTC)

But *how* did he build it? Was there some sort of internal ramp? Were extraterrestrials involved? 172.70.163.48 06:58, 21 September 2024 (UTC)

Couldn't care less. Cueball, I AM impressed. If your friends aren't, you need new friends. 172.71.160.115 07:37, 21 September 2024 (UTC)

I assumed Cueball was trying to meet the needs, inside the pyramid.  :-) Robert Carnegie [email protected] 172.70.160.231 10:49, 21 September 2024 (UTC)

And a pyramid is a very safe building, except for emergency exits.  ;-) (Also traps, but no one asked you in.) But it's not going to fall over. Robert Carnegie [email protected] 172.69.194.227 10:53, 21 September 2024 (UTC)

If you’re going to sign with your full name and email address, why not just set up an account and have that as your automatic signature? 42.book.addict (talk) 01:30, 22 September 2024 (UTC)

It's harder to climb over an inverted pyramid, looking for weak-points. But then it has a weak-point insofar as having to be balanced upon its point, and one of those definitely might fall over... 162.158.33.237 17:29, 21 September 2024 (UTC)

No food or water? He was doing it wrong: Above ground there was a separate chamber for holding food and drink for use by the deceased person in the afterlife. 172.71.170.166 00:50, 22 September 2024 (UTC)

Plus I'm thinking that if he's going to the effort of building a pyramid, it wouldn't have taken too much extra to include a ground-source heat exchanger to keep the place comfortable - that just seems like poor design on his part.172.70.90.136 13:02, 23 September 2024 (UTC)

I feel like we're missing a play on words here. Since Cueball's "safety assertions" are that the pyramid is highly defensible, the authorities are literally contesting those assertions by trying to invade it. If they can't get in, then his assertions hold up! --- However, I would argue that defensibility falls under security and not safety. Thus I'm contesting his assertions on the grounds that they are mis-categorised. Kapten-N (talk) 14:20, 22 October 2024 (UTC)

Easily could improve this to 40% by installing a farm, kitchen, bedroom, and bathroom in the base. Maybe geothermal or solar for power, lest you need to venture outside for resources and face the police. Maybe putting a bowling alley in the third floor will make people appreciate it more, potentially fulfilling the remaining 60%

172.68.23.51 23:44, 14 January 2025 (UTC)
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