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Nice one! Well, as a straight answer, 1) the present society is just plain indifferent/irrational/banally-evil, so its collective distribution of money does not map to its collective distribution of utility, and 2) one's values are always selfish in a tautological sense, and so one should attempt to impose them on the world - even in the face of apparent conflict with everyone whose revealed preferences do not include your values.
In other words, we should be Nietzchean egoists on the meta-level of conflicting values, even if altruism/compromise/collectivism/etc are among those values that we would want to implement on the object level.
But that never worked in the ancestral environment!
Seriously - how am I supposed to overcome the akrasia generated by my instincts screaming at me to walk out into the desert, because all the social signals around me are telling me that I'm no longer useful to the tribe?