I'll speculate that one common way this mindset gets acquired is by encountering enough ways that the system really is rigged, or that the pieties learned as a

I'll speculate that one common way this mindset gets acquired is by encountering enough ways that the system really is rigged, or that the pieties learned as a child seem false. There's not much distance between "the system is rigged" and "I want to be the predator, not the patsy." I'm not defending this way of thinking: I think it's wrong. But to counter something it helps to understand it, not just marvel at it.