Quadra
Gamma
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Third Quadra
Individualist-Pragmatic values
Sovereign independence
Strategic exchange
Competitive agency
Practical results are the real measure of success. Loyalty is selective and earned, universal obligations are not recognized. Motives and leverage in others are assessed quickly and without sentiment. Opacity comes naturally - self-sufficiency extends to information as much as to resources.
Life phase: maturity.
Social unit: self and immediate chosen circle.
Social structure: polycentric - many independent centers engaged in open competition.
Key spheres: business, finance, law - resources and incentives are the primary levers of social influence.
Time: near-future strategic, time as a resource to optimize.
Mindset: optimization.
Objective: maximize personal autonomy and bargaining power.
Action: acquire resources, leverage, and optionality.
Development: advance personal interests through voluntary exchange and strategic adaptation.
Emotional baseline: impervious and inward - external emotional signals register weakly, the default tone is cool and self-contained.
Era type: liberalization.
Shadow: collective dependencies and costs borne by others tend to fall outside the frame, what works for the self is easily mistaken for how things simply work.
Correlations
- 1Everything in the world has its price, expressed in money, to me.78.4%
- 2Individualism is good, not bad.71.2%
- 3If someone's patriotic pride dooms the population to long material hardships, then it's crap, not patriotism.69.8%
- 4I believe that the right to private property should not be limited by anything.68.1%
- 5The greatest evil comes from those who tie the hands of business with any kind of restrictions.68.0%