It’s basically the guaranteed end state of a society that both highly values individualism and has been kneecapping regulations/regulators/rule of law for decad

It’s basically the guaranteed end state of a society that both highly values individualism and has been kneecapping regulations/regulators/rule of law for decades. You don’t need a very high proportion of the population to poison the well with bad behavior enough that everyone just accepts that as regular behavior and then even the ethical portion of your society starts engaging in the bad acts. One of the main benefits for having a government is to go in and regulate bad behavior away that would never occur organically because each individual actor in society loses far too much trying to fix the situation on their own to rationally try.