Say you spent the last two weeks assembling heavy industrial tools, producing hundreds of units that you've painstakingly ensured were the best possible product you could roll out and knowing that just one of them sells for roughly the same amount of money you earn in a single day.
You have directly generated more than ten times the income for your company than you are earning but smile and accept it when told "that's enough for you" on payday.
Then say one day your boss calls a meeting to announce that production quotas are being raised but your hourly wages and benefits are being reduced, not because times are tougher but because it would make more money for the company and he doesn't see a need to share it with a bunch of mindless worker drones when he's got a stupid kid to look after that keeps buying and crashing expensive new cars.
Would you continue to smile and nod when you have to skip meals, reduce the quality of your own life, and hope to whatever cosmic forces you might believe in that you and your family avoid illness, injury, or unexpected disaster even as people start calling you a worthless bum and find it increasingly easy to justify making your life more difficult just to keep one guy rich or would you feel like you've just been robbed and demand what you've worked for and earned?
That's the other, much more convincing side of the argument. Whether I'm working up a sweat or filing my income taxes I damn well expect returns for what I've done. A company cannot function without employees just as a government cannot function without taxes. Neither of those entities last particularly long if people prefer to actively sabatoge them when they have a problem instead of fixing it, like an inefficient workplace or wasteful spending and the results reach a lot further than just your selfish ass. I can change my working conditions and in the process make my job easier and even bring in more profit. If you don't think you can do the same with your government then buddy somebody's not doing it right.
And if you think you can pick up and walk away to look for something better then I have some bad news for you: THAT is asking for a handout. You're relying on somebody else to look after you and offer you a better deal on a silver platter when you wouldn't put in the effort yourself. You think it's broken? Fix it, you lazy shit, because "I got mine" is an infectious attitude and the more it spreads the fewer people are inclined to do much of anything even as they slowly realize the number of people able to say those words keeps shrinking and stopped including themselves a long time ago.
