This is some extreme oversimplification of 1-human behavior and 2- how easy is it to teach people immediate need denial for long term benefit. No matter how many times you tell people the parable of the ant and the grasshopper, it's still just a story. It's not how the human mind works (generally).
On the inverse end, I could point out how every "self made man who didn't need help from nobody and just smarted his way to the top" was likely helped in countless circumstances that have nearly nothing to do with his direct actions. Humans are great at creating narratives, regardless of whether there is actual causality.
Socialism wants to save everyone from a biased, unfair, inequitable system, understanding that a herd is stronger than an individual and that spreading risk across the board means fewer catastrophic events for the individual. The goal is to lower the upper limit and raise the lower limit. It's not an attempt to pander to poor foolish baby people who can't do a finances for themselves, it's saying that there's no reason for a civil society to allow some to suffer debilitating hardships at the hands of a system they were forced into through circumstance alone while others reap unjust rewards. It's not perfect, but leaving "the free market (tm)" alone and not regulating leads to slavery and child labor and private paramilitaries protecting corporate kings as the past has shown.