Your parents birthed you, fed, clothed, and housed you. Your family watched out for your wellbeing, and your community provided education, roads, healthcare, and enforced the laws you live by. We are set within an economic community, and all of us contribute to the world in some way. 

We build a longer table because we should be sharing the good fortune that smiled on us, and in the same way others will - hopefully, share their good fortune when the wheel turns. Compassion and concern are not weak and "woke", they are the glue that bind a community and give its members resilience. Greed and hoarding aren't healthy, but destructive. 

And the sad truth is that we are seeing this play out again in ever-increasing wealth inequality, and rising autocratic state power and oppression to keep the disenfranchised outside the walls.

Even our ancestors understood this tension between generosity and hoarding. In the ancient Germanic/Scandinavian Futhark (Alphabet), the first rune (letter) was Fehu and it meant cattle or wealth. There is a Scandinavian poem that says:

"Fee (Fehu - wealth) causes strife amongst kin;
the wolf lives in the forest."

It's clear from this that when kin are divided, destruction waits in the forest. But when a community works together for all, then it grows in harmony and compassion.