Correct me if I'm wrong, but your main point is that capitalism takes as an axiom that people are naturally selfish, while anarcho-socialism takes as an axiom that people naturally are altruistic.
So I have a question: What motivates you to help other people?
Sex and eating immediately come to mind as counterexamples. When you said "life" did you actually mean something more specific along the lines of "modern life in the west"?
Exactly. I do the same. So I don't think that the concept is out of the realm of possibility.
Generally, anarchists acknowledge that there'd have to be a lot of social change before a state of anarchy could actually come about. If the government disappeared today, it'd be total chaos. Kind of like how I'd advocate for a total abolition of the prohibition of drugs; such a transition couldn't happen right away, it'd have to happen over a period of time.
An anarchistic society would have to be significantly different than our own. I think it'd end up being much like the Internet; there'd be a large number of very small communities. A decentralized network.
I'm not sure if this would ever come about or not.
Anarchism only works if everyone is honest and peaceful.
Not everyone is honest and peaceful.
Therefore anarchism is a naive governmental/philosophical system.
Also, on the internet, people steal shit from each other, hack in and destroy people's systems, commit fraud (phishing), and threaten to kill/harm one another all the time.
Thank you, but I'd rather live in a world where there exists an entity that protects property rights.
That's quite a simplification, but yeah, I'll accept that for the purposes of this post :)
If something I do visibly helps somebody, I feel good then because it feels like I have a purpose in life. It feels like I'm contributing to something greater than myself.
I think one of the most fundamental human urges is to feel like you belong to something. Helping people is so far the best way I've found of satisfying that urge. Capitalism seems to be based on the idea that that what people really want is more stuff. I think the reason that seems to be true is because having stuff and acquiring more of it is necessary to survive in a capitalist society. You need to have money to buy food and shelter. That's also why people don't share more of their stuff - sharing their stuff reduces their chances of survival. Even if somebody is rich "enough" to survive, they still need money to participate in nearly every other aspect of society. They can't listen to music, or go out with their friends, or really do anything unless they have money (or stuff that can be converted into money). This is always in the back of people's minds and is the reason people don't share more, I think.
So I have a question: What motivates you to help other people?