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.”
https://apnews.com/article/texas-oregon-portland-homelessness-government-and-politics-7a73b5166f6181d56ace33f682298c24
A drop in the ocean, because we refuse to communally pay for a robust social safetynet. In fact, we had a pathetic one once, and spent the 80s and 90s dismantling even that to “turn the bull loose” for shareholders that already won at life through birth or luck.