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People view it as entitled because it’s good. Generally when confronted with people doing better than them people have two choices:

1. View it as an opportunity to question or improve their own situation.

2. Prefer fairness and attempt to tear those people down.

Many Americans prefer 2. It’s fundamentally self destructive, but when they see workers who don’t hate their lives their immediate first thought is “gosh how selfish and entitled, someone has to stop them!” It’s a crab bucket mentality, driven by hyper-individualism in American labor.