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Because we glorify and often lie about what individuals can do, and literally villanize cooperation as somehow wrong and evil in western society.
You can't build a skyscraper individually, yet we applaud the owners of them for their asset, when it took a collective of hundreds of laborers and engineers to build it who will never benefit from the fruits of it commensurate with they work put into the collective project. Which works for the sociopaths pushing individualism as they can create a collective through capital to accomplish what they want credit and profit from and then be dismissed, so they can propagate it's their skyscraper that "they" built. cue Steve jobs coming out on stage to take credit for the new kind of phone HE implies having made without a drop of humility.
Then they use that as a cudgel to tell individuals without their greed disease, who don't have the means to call on flash collective employees, that if they're struggling they must be lazy or incompetent because the right people built skyscrapers all on their own by pulling themselves up by their bootstraps.
Toxic individualism is a virus. Anything worth anything our species has accomplished has been the work of many, but the self-serving sociopaths that control the means of production and propaganda and state violence want you to be hostile towards the concepts of a social contract, and social equity, and society being judged by how it's most downtrodden are treated. It's destroying us, and it's murdered millions of neighbors we betrayed to die under freeways of exposure for the crime of not producing value for sociopaths, aka "pulling themselves up by their bootstraps." Easy to say as a nepo baby on a mega yacht barking dictates at assistants.