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 Careful, that is borderline Sapiens-esque thinking. It pre-supposes that all motives are driven my selfish behaviour. Which is fundamentally wrong and gives a false (albeit seemingly intuitive and WEF friendly) impression of human action. If this were true there would be no Bitcoin, no Open Source movement and no cypherpunks. 

Not forget the nuance, the details and apparent outlier cases are important!!

Enjoy your work and get the impression you’re a deep thinker. Don’t fall for that oversimplification of human action trick.