A society in which it’s everyone for themselves, that refuses to care for one another, is no society at all. Then everyone acts shocked and horrified at someone who understandably snaps, like modern western culture doesn’t run entirely on schadenfreude.
That was the crux of the idea of a social contract, which is long dead in the US. Now people line up to revel in the suffering of their fellow citizens with “well you were stupid to do xyz in life, so you deserve your suffering haha.”
I don’t know, I always hear people telling people who’ve been at the ass end of society their whole lives here to just be like Charlie Brown and show up tomorrow with a smile to get fucked over again like it’s their duty and obligation.
If you are from the USA perhaps it is less obvious, but in a European nation for example you can only accept to live in the society in which you find yourself otherwise you would not have education, healthcare and public services. if you don’t accept it, you can change it with the tools they offer you or you can protest, emigrate or commit suicide.