"Statism is the outlet for the ancient base animalistic desire to dominate and enslave others rather than cooperate with them in civilization. But instead of physical enslavement, statism allows for mass psychological enslavement of societies via their conditioning to believe they have no alternative but to acquiesce to, and yield before, a violent monopoly provider of security."

Saifedean ammous 

 'All for ourselves, and nothing for other people, seems, in every age of the world, to have been the vile maxim of the masters of mankind.' Adam Smith
True for capitalism also.