In The Soul of Man under Socialism Oscar Wilde expounds on an anarchist world view. Wilde argues that under capitalism the majority of people spoil their lives by an unhealthy and exaggerated altruism-are forced indeed so to spoil them: instead of realizing their true talents they 
waste their time solving the social problems caused by 
capitalism without taking their common cause away. Thus 
caring people seriously and very sentimentally set 
themselves to the task of remedying the evils that they see 
in poverty but their remedies do not cure the disease: They merely prolong it because the proper aim is to try and reconstruct society on such a basis that poverty will be 
impossible.