[kazen44]

> I find it bleak that we expect our societies and markets to function, solely driven by "selfish" value-chasing individuals.

the inherent problem of today's society is exactly because it rewards people who are "selfish" and value-chasing far more then having a far more communical mindset.

In terms of value extraction from society, those who play selfish win, and they win at the expense of others.

I would even like to add that they might even be rewarded for this behaviour at large in our current economic system. Because the system is very bad at including costs of external factors. These external factors right now are being paid for by society at large. A prime example of this would be enviromental costs and bailouts with too little strings attached.