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> it is embedded in the culture to be as egoist as possible and to steal as much as you can from everyone else in the most ruthless and shameless possible way

This sounds like an issue with capitalism and the rest of your comment aligns with that too. You also pointed out the dissonance between the complaints people have about the govt and the similar actions they take - I think a lot of that has the same cause. We have bad incentives at multiple levels because it's the water we're all swimming in