Friend, every person gets benefits from the state. Be thankful that all the help you got was education, policing, infrastructure, community wealth, tax policies that favor asset owners, indirect subsidies, or policies that would be obvious redistribution if it weren’t laundered through defense spending. If you look at where America’s defense spending goes it is rather obviously an employment and welfare program with a side hustle of war profiteering. There would be no Silicon Valley without massive defense spending in the Cold War.

Bribed? You seem to think that the homeless actively use their immoderation as some kind of protection racket.

Alternately, we could say the Americans have decided to make the lives of poor and addicted people as bad as can be achieved without actually killing them.