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"...it's just that seeing all this clearly doesn't lead me to the conclusion of "therefore, why bother doing anything beyond self interest?"

well what i'd posit as a semi-egoist is, where are you going to access anyone's well being beyond what you experience and feel within yourself? All the little radical movements "against the system" have proven that people just like money and comfort better than just being pissed about things they can't change. Sure, as anarchists have pointed out, not "working" does just as much damage to capitalism as refusing to deal with money, but in the end the power of an abstract number that can labor from everyone wins at the end of the day.

and if it wasn't clear before, i agree that anon is arrogant for assuming people are just stupid meat sacks for working a full time job. I wouldn't have been able to create this cozy work-free situation for myself if a lot of conditions weren't met and i didn't do a lot of work to make it happen...