Common sense, not Freud, notes that humans can be self-interested often enough. Humans dont 'learn to want to be loved.' That is an innate drive in most all, as is the desire to love in many ways, also inborn.

Freud did not 'discover' egotism as the center of dream content; he noted that his nearly exclusively upperclass white patients were consumed with the desire for and ambivilance about power and money and class status. His sampling was narrow, and peculiar to his time and economic class.

The desire to be loved will not save an economy. Asserting a need to be loved is even more of the narcissism that the author relegates as the cause of the problem to begin with.

There are solutions to be sure. They will come from clear headed people, not from an anachronistic system that believed one ought lie down on a couch five times a week free associating.

A sturdy psychology of culture is built not on theoretical premises, but on real time observation of human beings, the broad complexity of the species… and then on effective actions that rely on palpable facts and a vision that is pragmatic as well as far seeing.

Many persons carry these qualities. They are currently roaring the solutions aloud to whomsoever will listen. I think many of us are listening hard to the living.