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Poll: What contributes most to making a culture a default-striver culture where almost everyone at least pretends to be trying hard?
  • Inspiring leaders
    11.4%
  • Religion/ideology
    46.1%
  • Migrant-settler origins
    37.4%
  • Apollo programs
    5.1%
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That feels like part of the effect not cause. Ie how striver culture perpetuates at last mile. The question is why are peers applying pressure to strive rather than slack.
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I do think societies stall because of lack of inspiration, so I guess first one makes sense to me. On the other hand, I understand you're not involving sanguinary dictatorships, where almost everyone is pretending they're trying hard
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Society-wide prisoners dilemma? Maybe we'd all be better off taking it easy, but the individual incentive is to always work a little harder than the next guy. But in the end, we're all working hard just to keep up.
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I’d probably say it’s a combo of hardship & leaders modeling hardship “overcome-ability”. Hardship could range from tough trauma to simple loss of hope. Maybe a striver culture is manifested by a mass of people in this category. Eg Japan post WW2
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The deep unsatisfiable need is what pushes most people. 'Inspiring leaders', celebs, sport successes seem to have what they need. So they follow their direction.
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