This is funny but also an excellent example. There are people who honestly believe that, and those pretending to believe that because it's to their advantage that others be made to believe it. They are all humans behaving as humans in the context of the system they are in. Despite having the same tendencies, if these same people were living in a system that leveraged their personalities and talents to pro-social purposes we would have a very different world. The part we haven't figured out yet is how exactly that system would work and also work despite millions to billions of different people interacting with it in more ways that can be comprehended by any individual. This is quite a group project we're working on.

Edit: Whoops, I thought I was responding to someone in this thread. Interesting how much it connects here.