Psychologist Simon Baron-Cohen found that our brains are basically built to feel what others feel. Under capitalism, kindness doesn’t pay the rent. If you grow up in a system where compassion is seen as a weakness and success means stepping on others, then selfishness isn’t pathology, it’s strategy. I think capitalism takes that even further: it makes us feel guilty all the time. They tell us that selfishness isn’t just understandable, but natural.