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"i know it’s a matter of degrees and subtlety, but in many cases it’s not “neo-liberalism” or even “capitalism”, but a maladapted and (self)marginalized individual’s dysfunctional dynamic with their society or community."

Which is like... 360 degrees back to the same question. Why is this individual misadapted and (self-)marginalized? Because of society's *very functional* dynamics of capital accumulation and exclusion that results.

What is a rapist or abuser? The exact same than the mass-shooter. He wants to have it his ways with women or kids, but since he does't have either the socio-cultural position of privilege or the adequate, proper social skills and etiquette, he'll just take the shortcut of going for the grabs, avoid the most basic, obvious requirement of consent of the other, where the other is seen as a piece of meat, marketed everywhere as a luxury commodity.

Talking is supposedly cheap, yet also very complicated for some. It's not just about chatting with women, but chatting with them with an approach that'll make them stick to you, like you, go to bed with you. Many guys got it "naturally", i.e. in their specific psycholinguistic programming, their approach, their attitude, their pheromones... so they feel like they're doing nothing and they're just picking up women on the way. So others are waking up in the morning with the awful thought that there are privileged jackasses like Riley Stearns who have it their way in life while even succeeding passing off as intelligent, talented, original and relevant for any reason. They get lauded by beautiful liberal women as they make their millions. How not to violently hate such a context, to the point of wanting a bloodbath that makes yourself a star for a moment, and beat Riley Stearns on the front page?

So where it comes a becomes problematic is when a layer of win/lose is added to these dynamics, where there is that intense pressure to succeed. To get what others have and you don't, as you are constantly exposed to people who have that, while you're licking your wounds in isolation. That intense view of winner vs loser is fairly recent... through the deterioration of more traditional social institutions and safety nets that make people not exactly "win", but simply have a healthy, normal life they can be content with.

What is perceived as the basic conditions of living has been commodified as the institutions collapse, so therefore an object of acquisition, or exclusion from. So yeah, in a way this has indeed to do with neoliberalism, but is more accurately