Economic Hierarchy-Enforcing Belief System
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An Economic Hierarchy-Enforcing Belief System is an economic belief system that is a hierarchy-enforcing belief system that systematically promotes, maintains, and legitimizes economic inequality, class structures, and unequal resource distribution among individuals or social groups.
- AKA: Economic Stratification Ideology, Wealth Hierarchy Doctrine.
- Context:
- It can typically justify Economic Inequality through economic hierarchy-enforcing narratives about merit, effort, and market efficiency.
- It can typically preserve Wealth Concentration through economic hierarchy-enforcing mechanisms that protect accumulated capital.
- It can typically maintain Class Divisions through economic hierarchy-enforcing social arrangements and institutional practices.
- It can typically limit Social Mobility through economic hierarchy-enforcing barriers to opportunity and advancement.
- It can typically rationalize Unequal Resource Access through economic hierarchy-enforcing explanations based on supposed competence.
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- It can often support Exploitative Labor Practices through economic hierarchy-enforcing systems that prioritize profit over worker wellbeing.
- It can often oppose Wealth Redistribution through economic hierarchy-enforcing arguments against taxation and social programs.
- It can often conceal Systemic Disadvantages through economic hierarchy-enforcing rhetoric about personal responsibility.
- It can often promote Economic Competition over cooperation through economic hierarchy-enforcing values that reward individual gain.
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- It can range from being a Subtle Economic Hierarchy-Enforcing Belief System to being an Explicit Economic Hierarchy-Enforcing Belief System, depending on its transparency of purpose.
- It can range from being a Limited Economic Hierarchy-Enforcing Belief System to being a Comprehensive Economic Hierarchy-Enforcing Belief System, depending on its domain coverage.
- It can range from being a Moderate Economic Hierarchy-Enforcing Belief System to being an Extreme Economic Hierarchy-Enforcing Belief System, depending on its inequality tolerance.
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- It can have Meritocracy Myths as economic hierarchy-enforcing justifications for wealth disparity.
- It can have Bootstrap Narratives as economic hierarchy-enforcing principles that individualize success and failure.
- It can have Market Fundamentalism as an economic hierarchy-enforcing framework for resource allocation.
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- Examples:
- Economic Hierarchy-Enforcing Belief System Types, such as:
- Economic Hierarchy-Enforcing Belief System Manifestations, such as:
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- Counter-Examples:
- Economic Egalitarian Belief System, which promotes equal resource access rather than economic stratification.
- Commons-Based Resource System, which prioritizes shared ownership over private accumulation.
- Cooperative Economic Model, which emphasizes democratic control instead of hierarchical management.
- Solidarity Economy Framework, which centers mutual aid rather than competition and inequality.
- Economic Democracy System, which distributes decision-making power instead of concentrating economic control.
- See: Hierarchy-Enforcing Belief System, Class Structure, Capitalism, Economic Inequality, Wealth Concentration, Socioeconomic Status System, Power Structure.