Why do you think the feeling of empathy and cooperation has decreased gradually in people nowadays

Today's individual is an ‘Atomic’ individual. But he is not be entirely blamed for this. The market economy and Internet technology have brought changes at every level of life. It has essentially made consumer out of an individual . ‘I’, ‘Me’ and ‘Mine’ have become more important than ‘We' and ‘Our’. We have become a self centric society. In a consumerist society empathy, innocence and cooperation have little space and social life is largely dominated by intelligence, smartness and self centeredness.