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At the bottom level, humans look for material satisfaction. They look for food, etc., to survive. But after these needs are satisfied, they go up the ladder. Their needs shift gradually from material to mental. The primary sector of the economy is agriculture, fishing, etc., as everybody knows. Engineering developed as the secondary sector to make the most of these natural resources.
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Fukuda, S. (2019). Self. In: Self Engineering. SpringerBriefs in Applied Sciences and Technology. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-26725-4_3
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