Those who favor higher taxes have less successful careers as well as lower life satisfaction in general, a study revealed. Conservative Sociologist Kenneth Blake explains that it because those who want higher taxes on the wealthier don’t aspire to reach that level of wealth.

“They know they can feed off the more successful without hurting themselves,” he said.

Oppositely, many of the lower and middle class who opposed raising taxes on the wealthy, or raising taxes in general, believe so because they believe they have a shot of achieving their financial dreams and, more importantly, are willing to work hard towards them. In other words, they are not wealthy but still do not want to raise taxes because it might hurt their future selves. This is the main reason why many in the working class oppose socialism.

“On the other hand, most progressives that want higher taxes are still living their parents and don’t aspire to anything but themselves,” said Blake. “They barely pay for anything themselves, they don’t have a personal economy so they don’t know what it’s like to feel the financial pressure of heavy taxes.”

Additionally, they are more likely to prefer an easy but lower paying job, or none at all, rather than a more challenging and financially rewarding one.

More specifically, compared to the younger folks of the past, the younger ones of today are most likely to demand a work-life balance, especially if they live in a more urbanized area, which tends to be more politically leftist.

“But the difference is young progressives demanding it earlier in life, even if they don’t have kids or sick parents to take care off yet,” said Blake. “It’s more about escaping discomfort and spending more time sheltering themselves in their little safe space.”

“Older folks who enjoy a work-life balance usually had worked much harder before, or actually see a need for the balance because they have someone to look after,” he said.

“But the worst ones are actually those who graduate college but choose not to work at all because they’ve given up before even starting,” said Blake. “That’s how bad it is: just the thought that the real world requires folks to work to survive already demotivates them so much.”

Without hard work, people are more likely to “demand the fruits of labor from those that actually labored” since they can’t appreciate hard work without working hard.

And these aren’t exaggerations and falsehoods: the facts are proven by elections themselves displaying the voting patterns of those who have a strong sense of entitlement. More and more younger voters are selecting progressive candidates and having a poorer work ethic, which leads them to demand free social services, the high taxes that fund them, and knowing that they’ll never be successful enough to pay those high taxes. The result is that Democrats are reaching record popularity in a level not seen among the young in decades.

“They’re nicknamed the ‘me, me, me!’ generation for a reason,” said Blake. “Democrat politicians know it so they say ‘Here’s what’s in it for you’ rather than say what’s in it for the rest of America.”

Meanwhile, for the next few decades, the hard-working young adults that don’t conform with that stereotype will have to financially tolerate their demands of their more leftist counterparts, especially as socialism becomes more mainstream among their generation.