That's an outdated view of behaviour. Helping other people is itself a powerful motivator for most people, and gains valuable social capital and status as well.

That's an outdated view of behaviour. Helping other people is itself a powerful motivator for most people, and gains valuable social capital and status as well. It has worked because everybody is contributing for their own reasons, both selfish and not. Personally I like this whole "civilization" concept, so far ranking altruistic motivations higher than selfish ones has turned out wonderfully. Things get ranked on arbitrary scales regardless, that's what people do.