This is the basic principle that took us from dwelling in caves, not knowing what fire was to exploring the cosmos themselves. Quite literally nothing your friends enjoy or rely on in modern society would've been possible without the collective pooling their labor and knowledge together to create a better future, to understand the elusive, to improve the areas where nature left us most vulnerable, etc.

The collective is the only reason our species is even still alive and why capitalism and its individualist philosophy is such an existential threat in the first place. It not only goes against our very nature as a social species but also implicitly weakens the very foundations of our societies, pushing them toward collapse.