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Irrespective of any economic or legal incentives or factors here, this comes down fundamentally to a lack of social trust in north america.

It doesn't happen the same way anywhere else in the world like it does in US&Canada.

People don't care about other people. "I got mine, ** yours."

It's a problem without an easy solution.

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How can you build social trust when there is no commonality with your neighbor? Without some commonality of principles how can I trust that any social contract would be recognized or understood. How do people flourish in that environment?

How can there be "no commonality" when you're both human? Like oh no, these people have different arbitrary preferences to me and so we've got nothing in common?

And what is this "commonality" supposed to be?

This rings so true. Simplistic but can explain most things that are wrong in the US. For an immigrant I see this pattern everywhere from Corporates, Housing, Immigration, Homelessness making friends. Selfishness is in the fabric of society here.

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