According to different perspectives, it describes also the attitude of people to be concerned only about ideas or facts that affect them as individuals.
According to this point of view, collective efforts can not be meaningful by themselves, but they can gain meaning only if considered as a sum of individual activities.
[2] The political ideals of privatism are directly consequent of the interpretation of society as just the sum of individuals that compose it.
Moreover, as considered by Jürgen Habermas, their ability to create these opinions would be damaged by the excessive role of the state that would limit the creation of volunteering and private societies and so the social and political debate inside a society.
According to an interpretation given by George Lipsitz, privatism needs to be considered hostile towards social life of a community, because it results in segregation and extreme inequalities.