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Equality & Envy

The Genius of Thomas Sowell

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The Costs of Enemy

Bad envy misdirects our energies away from improving our own human capital and towards resenting others. Third parties have little or no incentive to drum up the good kind of envy in others. It's much more profitable, both financially and politically, to drum up bad envy in wide swaths of the general public.

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