There's definitely evidence that capitalism at its most ruthless rewards psychopathic behavior. When you look at the worst corners of the American health insurance industry or the sub-prime banking market it really feels like the more psychopathically someone behaves the more it's rewarded.
The human being is in the most literal sense a political animal not merely a gregarious animal but an animal which can individuate itself only in the midst of society.
I'm very gregarious but I love being in the hills on my own.
I'm the most gregarious of men and love good company but never less alone when alone.