It's almost like their class interests changed and class interests influence behavior.
Almost like it's proving their point. Capitalist critique is not about individual "bad" people but about a system with perverse and harmful incentives.
(granting your claim for sake of argument - feel free to support it with data)
In any of the systems we've tried since the species got agrarian—especially Capitalism whenever it's Fascism Hammer Time—not the average person that's for a certainty.
They're too busy surviving.
In a proper society where we (the collective We, but really ~2k dragons) used the same tools we used to separate us to instead expand the sense of the tribal umbrella so that the species innate selfish altruism could shine?
A whole lot more folks whose part would be exactly like in the fabric of society, comfortable and without a thought of want for they know We got their backs too.