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"Considering the fact the doing good will not earn you anything in anyway"
This simply isn't an accurate statement.
I treat my co-workers well, help them out, and one of them bought me a pin that says "Hello, My name is Inigo Montoya, you killed my father, prepare to die!!!" because they know I like that movie.
I help people, people help me. Do they sometimes not help me, sure, but on balance everyone is better off for helping. It's not a zero sum game.
What you're describing is a common or free kindness - it's a social kindness that costs nearly nothing and delivers many times its value. The problem is more with economic kindness and selfishness and in that regard your coworker is (mostly, unless you unionize) irrelevant... the question is whether your boss, if looking at a 20 million dollar payout for a company of a dozen people will take half that and make you all rich or take it all and tell you plebs to get fucked.
The story of recent history is that plebs are getting fucked pretty much without exception. Social norms have shifted to the point where fucking over your employees is "cool" and there's not much we can do about it except slowly try and turn back the social compass and, of course, fucking unionize.
"any good"