This is shown in the frequent blocking of the public way by piling cement blocks or dropping a load of sand on the sidewalk or by erecting wire mesh fences to protect their building materials and blocking a public staircase as a result. I admit that people are not thinking in the terms I am using but their actions speak in those terms and the results are not good from the perspective of maximizing the overall good for everyone.
Parking fits the picture.
For many months, people parked their cars on the sidewalks of Mother Theresa Street to the considerable disadvantage of the tens of thousands of pedestrians who had to weave around the vehicles and queue up at bottle necks or risk walking in the street. The beneficiaries of the system were the one person per car blocking the sidewalk and the losers were the many thousands who needed to use the sidewalk. The lack of staircase lighting in apartment buildings is an other example. Though built by a Socialist government, lighting for staircases and hallways was not included in the design. What hall lights that exist were constructed and maintained exclusively for the residents of particular apartments, not for overall building resident needs.