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I don't need to feel like I've 'earned' basic resources, everyone should get those regardless of what they do so they're free to spend their life however they wish.
What are basic resources though? All people ever want is more. More than they had yesterday. More than the guy next door. More than Timmy whose parents took him to Disneyland in 3rd grade.
Capitalists, maybe. Most people would be happy with a quality of life equivalent to what the middle class currently experiences.
The middle class is a term that is so nebulous it might as well be meaningless. Families making 60k/year and families making 300k a year both consider themselves middle class and those are very different lifestyle qualities.