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needs, the needs for safety and security, the needs for love and belonging, the needs for esteem, and the need to actualize self. These needs are listed in the order that they arise. With the fulfilling of one, the new need develops. With all the needs met, it is supposed, one can be adjudged - happy.

Productivity, which appears during the fulfillment of the need for self-esteem and actualization, precludes the state of happiness. Or does it?

Productivity should not be confused with creativity. Creativity implies a longing. Productivity is taking what the process of creativity has discovered and realizing it. A person engaged in productivity, happy or not, is engaged in a process external to their sense of self. It may be an extension of an internal creativity, but production implies something that can be separate, that can stand alone from the self. For productivity to be inclusive of the process of happiness, the result, which is independent of the self, must still be identifiable as having been created by the self. It is not so much a matter of pride and acknowledgement, but an external recognition of what the individual has been responsible for producing.

Unions, in industries based in mass production, work very hard to transfer that recognition of the individual into the sense of belonging in a skilled trade. White-collar industries spend millions of dollars creating instances of recognition for persons involved in an industry that produces a sea of paper and data with no individual name on it. Production, both quantity and quality, rise when the individual involved in the process feels valued for their contribution. No matter if almost any one could be trained to take over their part of the process, the culture of industrialization strives to replace the individual identity of achievement with individual identity with the group that has achieved.

The culture of industry remains rooted in Maslow's need for belonging and self-esteem. For industry to be successful, the persons involved must remain in a cycle of constant affirmation of belonging and recognition from the group through their contribution to its production. It is important to realize that in modern Western culture, the culture of industry extends beyond the working hours into "private life" via the industry of consumerism.

A person who is productive, whether according to a pristine interpretation of Maslow or according to the mutated forms of industrial society, has a greater capacity to experience

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