I don't think everybody is every purely anything. Self-interest is one of our motivators. Altruism another. Fear of getting caught a whole other. Fear of al

I don't think everybody is every purely anything. Self-interest is one of our motivators. Altruism another. Fear of getting caught a whole other. Fear of alienating our peers another. We're extremely complex animals. But self-interest is why modern capitalism survives despite, on the face of it, seeming like a terrible system. It would be very hard to convince people who had never heard of it to adopt it by description alone. But if you take away their source of food and clothing, and then offer them a wage by which they can purchase them instead, then you have yourself a participant.