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My experience is that most people only care for themselves and couldn't give a crap about others. For me that's just a part of human nature, for you it might be because of capitalism. But how do you know with a different system people's behaviour will change?
In the Soviet Union there was corruption from top to bottom everywhere you looked. And people did the hard jobs because they were forced to.
To me yes, most selfishness is due to the conditions capitalism cause. And I know this because looking at past anarchist revolutions, the society itself functions. But the revolutions fail militarily. And I'll admit the anarchist examples are few so not a real large sample size to go off of. So looking at hunter gather societies can give good insight as well.