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.”
Num10ck said it maybe better than I can, but it’s because people find in the world things of a similar nature to what they express to the world, so even if you suffer difficult circumstances, as long as you maintain a positive outlook you will still be able to find good things to appreciate in the world.