Toro
Diamond Member
No actually society actually does give us almost everything. Without the blessings of society the most you would be able to accomplish is to eek out a scant survival on a diet of bark, grubs and carrion eventually succumbing to malnutrition, disease and to the elements.
It has been this way since the cave, individually humans can barely manage to survive. But as a group we can accomplish great things.
You and your skills and efforts account for very little of your prosperity while society accounts for most of it.
Them's the facts. And government is just an agency of society. Even the economy is just an agency of society. As is education, medicine etc.
Society is a collection of individuals. Much of what this society has accomplished was based upon the acts of individuals. Society has given us all of this today because of the deeds and ideas of individuals in the past. It is the acceptance of ideas and creation of institutions by individuals that has allowed us to build this society and the infrastructure around it.