you say it like thats a bad thing
Feeling emotional discomfort with inequities and inequalities is a common human trait, probably nearly universal.
But there’s no reason to suspect that that discomfort is a good guide toward solutions that help more than harm.
That sort of facile engagement with the problem is what gives us disastrous ideologies like communism.
I mean, one might conceptually bundle together practicality, pragmatism, and logic, and then say that caring about anything or having any principles or values is emotional and illogical. (This also gives us disastrous ideologies like communism, and may also be used to force favorite ideas because they're "scientific".)
It's not only recent, according to this quote from 300 years ago.
Jonathan Swift — 'It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into.'
Stuff like "why should I pay for this", or "why should they get to be lazy while I work" or "I don't feel like I should work as hard"
So they find other arguments, in a doth-protest-too-much-other-logic-arguments way.
The way he did it was to preach their cult's doctrine to them. "OK, according to your church's teaching, here's the requirements for you to be saved. How are you doing? Are you going to make it? How much harder are you going to have to work in order to make it? Will even working harder be enough to get you there?" When the weight of what their belief system actually demanded of them sunk in, some of them didn't want to be in the cult anymore.
Some of them. A few. Not many. But some.
One can be dispassionate and distant from one’s beliefs and still difficult to convince, because we all harbor some forms of _private reasoning_ about how the world works. If I have strong personal beliefs, they may be gathered from experience of decades. Not going to easily change my world view.
Add maybe a few _false beliefs_ for the xtra complication? (Not even considering the paradox of lying).
Finally, the emotional spin appears as _cynical reasoning_, that toxic mix of anger and resentment. The logic-warrior who ventures here is brave indeed.
edit: oh and without sounding too conspiratorial hopefully... how are you going to control a populace that isnt desperate, downtrodden and uneducated... /end conspiracy
I don't personally advocate for UBI, but I'll counter your question with another question; how are individuals supposed to have class mobility in an economy where the majority of transactions are speculative? The traditional "work hard and retire eventually" mindset is not going to last forever. Today's workers are paying yesterday's pensioners.