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Rationality Consists in Selfishness is ‘Fake News’
A rational person interacts with the world around himself or herself, not on basis of a whim or a wish, but on basis of some recognition of reality. A reality that is objective, that, unequivocally is non-subjective?
No one makes money via refusal to consider needs and wants of others.
Bill Gates is a Billionaire, precisely because he anticipated skills companies would need in future.
Apple has become one of the largest companies in the world, precisely because it anticipated communication, entertainment, and productivity needs of individuals and families.
If, absent caring about satisfaction of needs and wants of others, there is not arrival at earning of money, clearly, every model of rational human behavior must embed caring for needs of others.
Every model of rational human behavior must embed some caring for others that can be predicated, in entirety, on self interest.