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.”
social contract was only a construct that the privileged push upon people like republicans push crt; gays, blacks, most women never agreed to it because i had no benefit to them, but where still forced into it with beatings, arrests, and/or having their livelihoods ruined for simply being what they were.