It's not just the rich capitalists who are greedy.
Certainly most people want to make more money than they
are making.
That comes under the philisophical statement: "The grass
[it seems] is greener on the other side".
But look, Bowser! During the Great Depression, everybody
should have sacrificed and tightened their belts until the Great Depression [and its economic ills] were truly over.
Problem was, the Big Unions didn't heed the message in the period 1935-1939.