The error is in thinking people are motivated by "entitlement".
Hardly.
People are entitled to proceeds from insurance policies, from inheritance, and so forth.
When it comes to being "motivated" they aren't about to quit their day jobs waiting around on insurance payments to kick in or Aunt Lucy to pass on to her final reward. If they do we consider them exceedingly unusual.
We might note that people feel ownership about the money in their pocket or savings accounts. They are motivated to do harm to those who take it away from them.
But "entitled"? To what? To money?
Contrary to what you believe, many Americans have an entitlement mentality. You can find these folks mainly on the left and in the Dem Party. They dwell in a world with a belief system that sees privileges as rights.
Some people believe the feds owe them a return on the FICA money they sent to DC during their working carreers. But they know, its not a right and can not be found in the Constitution.