This study presumes the bounded rationality of cognition concerning the way of life. People called artisans feel higher felicity whenever they produce more refined goods. In contrast, those dubbed capitalists are devoted to maximizing their profits. People in an economy choose which way of life they send. We assume that meritocratic education mostly nurtures capitalists. However, such education is superficial or even harmful in the sense that the true happiness of a human being comprises not

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... y pecuniary benefits but also job satisfaction. In other words, efficiency pecuniary measurement of efficiency is not impartial, and if people are apt to behave under such a standard of value, some level of apathy prevails, as observed in the current world economy. This study found that the state wherein all individuals become artisans is an evolutionary stable set (ESS). People not merely achieve a higher satisfaction from completing their jobs, but also prosper materialistically, as high-quality goods are produced and exchanged within the economy. This suggests an urgent need to reconstruct a social norm, which controls meritocratic behavior through democratic education procedure.