That is because they have a religious belief in the tenets of capitalism and cannot doubt the proposition that there's a correlation between work and compensati

That is because they have a religious belief in the tenets of capitalism and cannot doubt the proposition that there's a correlation between work and compensation. When you see that 'wage theft' (nonpayment of earned wages) is well in excess of all criminal theft combined, when you see a class of people compensated in millions or billions for doing nothing, when you try to get entrepreneurial and find it's basically a lottery for trying to attract the money of (a) money, or (b) an underclass of people who simply don't have money to spend on your goods or services, that's when you lose faith in not only the Western implementation of capitalism but even the concept itself. Which is a shame as it's a darn fine pachinko machine for distributing resources without much human oversight. It's not a social system, but it's a handy mechanism in its place. Just remember 'the poor choose to be poor' is essentially a religious tenet.