Te, business logic (calculation of benefit)

Keywords: utility, benefit, work, income, time and resource expenditure, efficiency, means, money, savings, specialization, enterprise, objective facts (in themselves, outside of their systematization), algorithms (as the shortest paths to a goal), technology, extraction, transportation, construction, production, business

Definitions:
Te (in general): Striving for maximization of usefulness, the ability to channel all the individual's activity into a beneficial direction
Base Te: Striving and ability to increase the efficiency of using one's time, to produce more useful work per unit of time
Creative Te: Striving and ability to save resources (material, temporal and mental), to avoid useless activity

Typical trait components of Te:
Te + Logic = Absence of sentimentality and inner turmoil
Te + Descending = Mercantile mindset - evaluates any action from the perspective of whether it pays off, and if not, avoids such actions
Te + Extroversion = Entrepreneurial activity
Te + Rationality = Serious attitude toward responsibilities, demands fulfillment of obligations taken on
Te + Dynamics = Avoidance of “sudden movements” for the sake of preserving and growing the source of income

Atypical trait components of Te:
Te + Ethics = Lives and works for the benefit of relatives, not for any global social structures
Te + Ascending = Stubbornness due to overconfidence
Te + Introversion = Easily controls and suppresses their emotions
Te + Irrationality = Dishonest actions for profit
Te + Statics = Able to force themselves to work, dislikes idleness

Typical manifestations of the combination of Te with other functions:
Sum of two functions:
Te + Ti = High intellectual self-esteem, intellectual specialist type (LIE+LSE+LII+LSI)
Te + Fi = Tendency for business relations to grow into personal ones and to build family businesses (LIE+LSE+ESI+EII)
Te + Fe = Active in close regular interaction with others (LIE+LSE+ESE+EIE)
Te + Ne = Able to cleverly find new ways to achieve goals, innovator type
Te + Se = Desire for leadership and the accumulation of large sums of money, director type
Te + Ni = Acting ahead of others for personal gain
Te + Si = Philistine, alien to revolutionary ideas; desire to preserve established everyday life above all
Te + Qi = Cosmopolitanism, alien to any traditional values
Te + Di = Industriousness - proud of not doing anything useless
Te + Qe = Irritated by strong emotions
Te + De = High capacity for work, talent for coordinating the efforts of many people

Sum of three functions:
Te + Si + Qe = Strong instinct of self-preservation, concern for sustainable self-sufficiency
Te + Si + De = Works on improving the comfort of the surrounding environment
Te + Ni + Qe = Protestant morality (“wealth is a sign of talent and chosenness”)
Te + Ni + De = Monetary thinking (“nothing is sacred, everything is bought and sold”, “money doesn't smell”)

Functional Difference:
Te - Fe = Emotional sobriety, avoidance of strong emotions, frugality, dominance of economic interest (LIE+LSE+ILI+SLI)
Te - Fi = Independence, quickness and efficiency in decision making (LIE+LSE+ILE+SLE)
Te - Ti = Unscrupulousness, willingness to use anything to accelerate the achievement of a goal, sales manager type (LIE+LSE+SEE+IEE)
Te - Ne = Pragmatism, contempt for ideals, bureaucrat type
Te - Se = Preference for moderate, non-traumatic solutions
Te - Ni = Industrious - hurries to solve everything on their own rather than waiting for someone else to do it or for the problem to resolve itself
Te - Si = Developed time management ("time is money")
Te - Qi = Not inclined to relax and have fun, works to exhaustion, not sparing themselves, workaholic type
Te - Di = Works only for themselves, alien to any ideologies and thoughts of self-sacrifice
Te - Qe = Carefully thinks through all actions, not inclined to impulsive disruptions in the sequences of actions
Te - De = Tends to hide the sources of their income - believes that “money likes silence”.

Conclusions.
Our conclusions regarding the evolutionary role of Te turned out to be somewhat unexpected and even paradoxical. Within the already established model linking socionic functions to different types of selection, Te is obviously antagonistic to Fe. Thus, contrary to our expectations, Te is not related to natural selection, but to sexual selection.
The classic image of Te is that of a provider-breadwinner for their family. The stronger the specialization of Fi, the greater the number of dependents the remaining family members must feed. For example, if the mother stays with the children, then the father must at least double or even triple his food-procuring activity, using all his available time to the maximum (and this is what Te is best prepared to do). In addition, Te is also crucial at the stage of building the family nest, allowing the choosing sex (female) to assess in advance the personal efficiency and responsibility of the partner of the chosen sex (male), before making a final decision.
But can this also be considered sexual selection, where instead of a beautiful song, the partner is chosen based on a valuable gift?
Let's conduct a thought experiment: imagine that the “gift” in the form of a well-arranged family dwelling or regularly provided food remains, but the partner has changed. Will something change? Our answer: from the perspective of Te - nothing changes. The nest/burrow may be found, inherited or obtained in a struggle, the amount of food depends not only on the gatherer’s activity but also on the location, weather and the presence of competitors.
But when choosing by Fe - for a song, dance, poem or simple external beauty - one chooses for that which contains the unique author's style to the maximum extent possible, i.e. in this case, what is being chosen is precisely the author themselves.
Thus, Te here replaces and substitutes Fe. Instead of choosing a partner as a biological entity with an underlying genotype (further sexualized by Fe), in “pragmatic” Te-valuing species and populations, the choosing sex selects material factors - the livability of a nest, a burrow stocked with food, etc. - when forming a family.
In other words, in "pragmatic" (mercantile-interest-based) Te-valuing relationships, the moment of choosing a partner’s personal style is skipped entirely, leading directly to the "prose of life". This prose, of course, exists even in "romantic" (sexual-attraction-based) Fe-valuing relationships, but it does not influence the selection process.
Therefore, it must be acknowledged that the active role of Te is nothing other than the weakening of sexual selection in a population, while its passive role is its association with qualities that provide an advantage in the absence of sexual selection.
At the same time, extraverted (base) Te manifests at the stage of creating a resource base, which later attracts a partner for reproduction, while introverted (creative) Te allows the maintenance of an existing resource base with minimal effort and, consequently, sustains the presence of a partner.

Summarizing all of the above, the author concludes that the Te function, from a biosocial point of view, can be defined as a complex of individual traits evolutionarily linked with WEAK SEXUAL SELECTION in the population.