In the USA if your problem can’t be solved in a way that produces a profit, you must solve it yourself or live with the consequences. Our society is too hetero

In the USA if your problem can’t be solved in a way that produces a profit, you must solve it yourself or live with the consequences. Our society is too heterogenous for us to make public benefit a goal. Every type of benefit is perceived as a zero-sum game. Add in the fact that Americans tend to vote against their self-interest(1) in order to conform to the ideology with which they identify, and it’s turtles all the way down. (1)This is more easily recognized when viewing the behavior of some other group, but it’s identifiable among all groups.