The answer is in at least part an education system that worships at the deterministic alter of Maslow.
Every time that Maslow’s Hierarchy of Human Needs is experimentally tested it is shown to be false but it is still taught in basic education classes and used as a basis of educational and social policy. The government at the urging of the left has created huge programs and and spent trillions of dollars because of a psychological paradigm that is demonstrably false.
Maslow said that until basic needs like food and clothing were met then concepts such as personal virtue would not develop in non-self-actualized humans. This is a large part of the Poverty causes crime argument the left makes. The poor are criminals because they have no choice in the eyes of the left. Oddly they combine Maslow with the noble savage so that the poor are also good.
I could write a book on this
And you might illuminate part of the fault, but not all of it, and certainly none of the solution. (A Book already was written about THAT.)
The bible very flatly states: give HONOR to whom HONOR is due. That’s God talking.