what does socialism/entitlement have to do with arrogance? do you have the experience to believe what you say, or do you just make generalizations based on some right libertarian perspective of political system?
u.s. = fuck the poor, dick ride corporations. and u.s. has some of most arrogant people in the world, no question. so what does socialist context have to do with it?
How is feeling entitled to receive a handout not arrogance?
a handout? talk to me when corporations destroy your homeland, make your air unbreathable, destroy your rain forests and kill off your wildlife, all the while paying workers less and less and less? one of the reasons education systems continue to crumble is due to widespread corporate tax avoidance. they take and take and destroy our cultures bit by bit, and it's handout when we say things must change, else they must pay for the privilege? the game was rigged from the start -- fuck a handout. that term is inappropriate when the game was rigged against the poor.
having an opinion that may differ from yours regarding the limits of human dignity and of theft/exploitation, does not make a person arrogant. it is a difference of opinion. arrogance has to due with perception of
one's own importance. if one favors equality, to whatever extent, that indicates the polar opposite -- that the importance of others equals their own. in other words, you are very much misusing the word.
To use a market analogy, if you let the largest player steamroll the competition, you wake up one day without competition in an abusive monopoly. I'm a believer in efficient markets, but I don't trust human's to not manipulate markets. When you let wealth inequality fester, abuse of the majority occurs every single time, and in such cases there is no opportunity for motivated individuals to realise their potential as libertarian ideals aspire to.
In fact, I just don't fucking get it! Here we are built on a world of technological wonder designed on the back of engineering and scientific pragmatism, yet when it comes to ideologies everyone seems to think that one particular approach is supreme instead of worrying about what works....fucking madness.