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The Thatcherite maxim of "there's no such thing as society" is what the Conservative government still have in place today, and have done since the 80s.

The point is that 'society' is not something distinct from us that we can blame. Society is only the average result of each and all of us individually, like the big, bad 'market' is.

What Thatcher said:

"There are individual men and women and there are families and no government can do anything except through people and people look to themselves first."

Which touches the crux of the matter here.

It's both. Society plays a role but people do, too.

Society is just a lot of people.

They do repeatedly, by taking no action to change it.

Must be nice, being that naive.