I've come to the conclusion that some people must see success as holding someone else down as opposed to raising yourself up. The poor people you're talking about don't see it as screwing themselves as long as they can recognize that some other group is more screwed.
I think there is a lot of people who just look up to rich people, no matter what. There is a strong cult of personality around Trump and Musk.
One of the interesting things is watching my upvote count change in this discussion. It reliably goes up during EU time and then goes back down during US time. It's amazing.
Reminds me of: "Socialism never took root in America because the poor see themselves not as an exploited proletariat but as temporarily embarrassed millionaires."
And who favors the rich. You have to give Republicans credit, they are skilled at getting the poor to comprehensively screw themselves.