We live, in the West and many places in the East, with a capitalist structure. The basic rule in this system is to give as little as you have to while getting as much as you can. The global domination of this structure might testify to its wisdom, given our human nature and the choices it has yielded to those affluent in the West and East. Yet, massive financial inequities, suffering, and environmental systems collapse are everywhere fanned by unprecedented climate changes.
In many ways, it is based on Adam Smith's Wealth of Nations, (1776) where Smith asserts that individual initiative serves the common good (eventually, ultimately), so we should incentivize individual initiative at all costs, in the present. Much of what we witness today is the excesses of unbridled capitalism, where business uses its dominating influence over government and the laws to yield higher profits for stockholders.
John Nash, 1994 Nobel Prize winning economist and mathematician claims that Smith was incomplete: the best result comes when individual initiative works for the individual AND the group. In our case, the group is the pool of global participants with the ganas* to develop their thinking.
*ganas — desire, urge; from the Spanish verb ganar, to win or gain
