You're getting downvoted for the joke, but in a way, yes everyone in the USA is supposed to provide for themselves. Aside from a few demeaning and complicated

You're getting downvoted for the joke, but in a way, yes everyone in the USA is supposed to provide for themselves. Aside from a few demeaning and complicated government programs, the USA has only distributed resources through factor payments based on labor, or ownership of capital. Most of our programs aiming to help the poor only phase in after the poor have earned a certain amount of money through labor.