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Honestly, I get it, some dipshits starts way ahead and you started in the gutter.
Most people however legitimately start in the gutter and don't even try, embrace anti-intellectualism, and see people climbing their way out of the gutter as traitors. And I fucking hate those people more than the douche with a silver spoon up his ass.
The crab bucket
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crab_mentality
I hate it when the success stories are used as ammunition. Because a tiny minority made it super successful its possible for anyone to do it, and if its possible for anyone then its realistic for everyone, so anyone who didn't is fundamentally bad. They may be stupid, lazy, crooked, unambitious, but fundamentally bad in some way.
Truly sad people that are holding back social progress.
The "accept your lot in life/things are what they are" crowd. They believe this is the best it can be for them and that it's the way things have to be otherwise they must admit things could be better and all their efforts in life have been in vain. So to protect their fragile egos they embrace the bottom of the barrel. They see any who try to highlight that things should and could be better as agitators just trying to make people upset and their lash out because it contradicts their foundational worldview.
It is sad because it is literally a trauma response to protect their psyche. If they ever had to accept reality they would crash out in despair and the brain naturally will do damn near anything to avoid that.