By David S. D’Amato, American Spectator -
Humankind’s propensity to act selfishly is taken to be an important problem in political theory: an impediment, perhaps, to the utopian dreams of political philosophers. State-organized collectivization is often wrongly believed to provide a way out of the cycle of selfishness, but of course it doesn’t. People remain human, motivated to act according to concrete material incentives, guided by self-interest. And it is natural that it should be so. People want to do what is best for themselves and their families.
