It does, but people do a good job at making a strawman of themselves. These bootstrap folks are out there, and they are here. And I'm not just talking about the libertarians, plenty of liberals have trouble seeing the bigger picture. When it's painful to do that, we don't do it. You don't need to live in Nazi Germany to be have to ignorant for your own good, cognitive biases like just-world fallacy are enough. Climate change is plenty enough, it creates a lot of uncertainty and it brings the strawman out of people. Our defense mechanisms are rather predictable.