>>80370
while I agree that acts voluntary altruism such as charities are fine, the kind of altruism I'm talking about is the kind where the collective must suppress, forcefully steal from, or otherwise harm Individuals for the good of the collective. these forms of altruism include taxation, drafting, getting the state to seize the means of production and killing those you deem undesirable, and or forcing them to leave their private property.
>if you're purely about self-interest it's not that hard to game the system to your advantage.
this is not true. putting your own happiness first does not mean you have to exploit and back stab everyone within the collective for personal gain, as long as that collective is able to secure a decent quality of life for individuals within the collective. take the USSR for example, when the union was about to fall, people were so eager to get away from the shitty collective that starved and oppressed them, that when some generals organized a coup to dispose of the politicians disbanding the USSR, people actually joined hands to create a wall around those government buildings to stop the tanks. the Berlin wall fell accidentally when some soviet official accidentally said it would fall too early, causing lots of people to go out with sledge hammers and remove the wall themselves. In the case of America, students weren't becoming commies in the 80s, its only now that student debt is driving millennials into what they see as poverty (never would have happened if it wasn't for the government handing out student loans, driving up college prices due to more easily available money) that millennials are becoming commies. an understanding of how people turn against collectives when quality of life becomes low was key to Truman's marshal plan, which sought to prevent potential trading partners becoming communists by giving aid to war torn European countries so that people had no reason to attempt a 1917 style revolution.
capitalism in many ways is ideal since it is a system in which you must help people (through employment or through the sale of consumer goods, etc) in order to gain anything thus harnessing people's selfish nature in a way that benefits everyone. no other system has been anywhere near as successful in securing a good quality of life as shown in this map. in this system manipulative behavior, is usually punished by the market since most consumers will not go to businesses that sell them dysfunctional garbage at a high price. cheating the system to your advantage only occurs when the state creates monopolies through tax breaks, stimulus packages, government subsidies, nationalization, regulations, patents and business licences as well as killing off small business who cant keep up with taxation, since without any risk of going out of business, big companies have no intensive to not screw over their consumer base for profit. as such the state is what is holding capitalism back from its full potential.
>you need people to die for the cause and martyr themselves
>>>/islam/