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People are naturally entitled
Look at your average boomer in america, they benefited massively from the USA's geopolitical position post-world war 2, then they benefited massively from the creation of the petrodollar system in the 70's, then they benefited massively from the tech boom in the 90's and 00's. you couldn't have picked a luckier time/place to be born than the united states in the 50's
Yet, ask any of them how they got where they got, they're gonna tell you "hard work" and that other countries and generations of people just need to "pull themselves up by their bootstraps" and "work harder" and "grow up"
it's just natural human behavior, we believe we are entitled to and deserve what we have and more, and very few of us have any empathy for those with less
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