Alright, so if it's so easy to get people to work together, why don't we all live in a perfect, harmonious society? Everyone knows that everyone is better off if the whole works together, but it's a lot better for a few is they make things a lot worse for others. A serf is going to have a hard time chasing his dreams of starting a medieval metal rock band when the local lord is forcing him to work day in and day out to farm the land or die in a war.
Also, the world puts limits on how much time a person has to pursue their own goals. Practicing sick shredding skills on a guitar is hard to do if you're accidentally starved to death. As any Adult will tell you, you need to work first and deal with your interests on the side. Nothing is more Adult than accepting that fate.
Thanks to advances in food production and industrialization, the basic needs of humans are now easily met. However, our political and economic institutions haven't caught up to that fact yet.
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