Polanyy's Three Selfish Motives

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Polanyi indicates people’s three selfish motives of economic activity; that is, the existence motive maintaining life, the status motive for improvement of social relationship among a community, and the profit motive pursuing own gain. Because fear of starvation brings and strengthens the existence motive, reciprocity and redistribution toughen by a formation of community and communal bond in an effort to overcome it. Secondly, the status motive works to advance him to a better situation by gaining of honor and glorification, with premising the communal relation, for example, position and rank. Of course, though the change of status happens through reciprocity and redistribution, material profit will not become reduced to the action. On the

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