But you go to work out of necessity, and you don't go robbing co-ops because they have nothing worth stealing and if you did authority of the government and its institutions, which wouldn't be there in an anarchical system, would punish you. Its not out of any desire to better yourself, or the world.
I wasn't arguing for anarchy as I already stated, I'm just nitpicking individual points from wherever they come if they seem wrong.
The thing about going to work is that yes, it's a prolonged form of self-interest, but it still demonstrates our ability to make ourselves not follow our basic impulses in order to receive a greater reward in the long run.
I think that ties into that the average joe, pick your cliche' has not the BALLS to live on his or her basest set of impulses. Work is the safe way to maintain a sense of dominion over destiny. Anarchy is compelling for people who are "aware they have no real dominion over the status quo", but they rarely, if ever, push that need to dominate their lives that far. Thus, they go back to Jack in the Box, grumble about it on smoke break, but keep doing it.
Anarchy is almost like escapist fantasy, if you look at it from a sci-fi/fantasy nerd perspective. It grants the imaginer some serious "deification" of self, and makes their "boxed set" life appear to have the potential for "unrestrained freedom of impulse and excess".
Unfortunately, those that pursue it literally end up dead, or in a cell, and those that half ass it just end up dead.