wrong thread
Crazy on indeed. I’m not describing my belief system, I’m describing what I see people doing. The bulk of non-familial human interactions in our society are based on trying to obtain an advantage over the other participants.
Addendum: Within the socioeconomic system already vastly established.
But he’s seen other people engaging in free trade and engaging in barter or comparison shopping (it’s a little hard to tell which he was describing), therefore it’s not just him. Therefore, all humans love competition and have no interest in that namby-pamby cooperation stuff.
ETA: Not to support the OP’s argument either - I can’t tell what it is. My brain refuses to parse his double-spacing - I’m not kidding.
This is just to say
I have eaten
the social advantages
that were inherent in
the social structure
and which
you were probably
saving
for future generations
Forgive me
they were delicious
so sweet
and so cold
More lies
from The Man.
First they take our caffeine.
Next they will come
for our bakery products.
And leather goods.
And, I didn’t really say that.
Because I care.
I’m such an evil under-lord for.
Our lizard masters.
But…they give me ponies.
And llamas.
And hookers.
And small furry animals.
For my evil purposes.
-XT
I have killed.
I have helped kill.
I have killed part of myself.
I cannot change this.
I…
I must seek Buddha.
I must seek Christ.
To.
Kill.
Them too?
Is it.
A contract.
Or something?
The peasants are revolting?
I got nuthin’.
Buddha is the contact.
For the blow. He has.
Smoke too.
Jesus has access.
To the hookers.
Ponies.
Leather and.
Baked goods.
But sadly.
No small furry animals are to be gotten from.
This source. 
-XT
Come now… they’re not that bad! However, they are an acquired taste.
Both are huge generalizations, but if anything Rand Rover’s looks like a smaller one than the OP’s ‘everybody would be cooperating if not for the oligarchy’ theory. Am I missing something here?
So, in other words, you didn’t even read what I was responding to (because your brain can’t parse double-spacing . . .) and yet you are OK with wading in here and pissing on my post. Whatever. If that’s where you want to be when Jesus comes again, you go right ahead.
In the meantime, maybe you and cmyk and kingbighair can give me some examples from everyday life that show that people want nothing more than to help other people. You know, examples of voluntary pay cuts, paying $200 for something priced at 50 cents, that sort of thing. The desire for competition is so inherent that people even do it just for fun!
Your brain chip might be on the fritz. Find a wall or other hard surface and smartly bang your os frontales on said surface repeatedly until you hear a small buzzing noise.
Feel any better now? Make more sense? Here, have a pony…
-XT
I could probably get the same side effects by rereading the OP a few times. 
Seriously? I cannot help but think I am being set up here.
http://www.digitaljournal.com/article/257867
http://www.news.com.au/entertainment/music/is-jon-bon-jovi-the-biggest-tipper-in-town/story-e6frfn09-1111115369779
http://tonicgossip.com/2009/06/24/johnny-depp-gives-waiter-a-generous-4k-tip/
http://seeker401.wordpress.com/2009/07/30/charles-chuck-feeney-philanthropist/
http://salisburygrinch.blogspot.com/2010/02/as-example-of-selfless-giving.html
http://www.hooverassociation.org/grantsawards/humanitarian.php
http://www.morganhilltimes.com/news/252844-award-winners-examples-of-humility-giving
http://www.indiana.edu/~koertge/H205/Artificegiving.htm
I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving hysterical naked …
Musta been the hookers and the blow. You can keep the pony.
Confirmation bias, anyone?
So how does Free Pancake Day at iHop fit into your cosmology?
If Jesus comes again (allowing for the moment that he came the first time) it won’t matter where I’ll be - I’ll be in deep shit regardless. 80% of Christians say that what god likes, I’m not it. (Which 80% says that depends on what they think I’m like.)
I’d feel a lot more obligated to do that if that was actually my position rather that a moronic strawman you just threw up. Both you and the OP are incorrect in painting everyone in the the universe as being one way or the other - In real life people are rational agents acting on multiple impulses that have a lot to do with self-satisfaction and care for persons the person identifies with (be that everyone, just their country, just their tribe, just their family, or just themselves), and very little to do with either selfless altruism or compulsive competition as underlying motivations.