Setting aside that the US government is deeply influenced by Christian conservatism and the culture by Puritan ideals, to the point that no American President can be elected without vocally professing faith in God, Christ, or being seen with a Bible in hand, and thus is the most moralizing culture within Western civilization by far (particularly where sex and gender are concerned,) which hut-dwelling societies are you talking about, specifically?

https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2019/05/01/with-high...

The US can be said to be both. E.g. you won't find many "huts" along the northeastern coast, but search and you'll find them elsewhere:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_U.S._states_and_territ...

I'll leave it as an exercise for the reader to determine where the most "huts" are found.

So it's flat out wrong to claim that some sort of perceived moral bankruptcy with regards to the value of human life has left our society in the stone ages, when all evidence points to the contrary.

Under utilitarian capitalism people are expendable, but in the meantime they are less likely to dwell in huts than morally superior societies.

Note that I've blatantly equated religion with moral here.