This is one of America's fundamental ideological and moral turpitudes. There is a lack of integrated, holistic social services that treat people as human beings

This is one of America's fundamental ideological and moral turpitudes. There is a lack of integrated, holistic social services that treat people as human beings, with respect, and with genuine concern without first assessing how much money they have or what their needs are. Virtually no social workers go out and ask unhoused people if they're OK or if they need anything. In general, the American attitude blames the individual, divides people, encourages anomie and alienation, abolishes solidarity, frowns on the greater good and commonwealth, and sets lower classes against each other with a cynical, dismissive sentiment like: "If you're poor, then you're trash and don't deserve help because you should help yourself with imaginary bootstraps. So get a job, you lazy, freeloading slob. And don't even complain about being disabled, not having healthcare, mental healthcare, prescription coverage, eyeglass coverage, or dental coverage that most of us wage slaves have to pay for. If you get fired for not having shoes, that's your problem that you should've solved yourself with money and access you don't have." Disclaimer: I was homeless for 9 years. I also worked MAANGs and major universities off and on.