Envy is an emotion that is essentially both selfish and malevolent.
It is aimed at persons, and implies dislike of one who possesses what the envious man himself covets or desires, and a wish to harm him [the envied]… There is in it also a consciousness of inferiority to the person envied…
He who has got what I envy is felt by me to have the advantage of me, and I resent it. Consequently, I rejoice if he finds that his envied possession does not give him entire satisfaction – much more, if it actually entails on him dissatisfaction and pain… (Schoeck, pg. 20-21)
via Cosmic Autonomy: Clarifying the concept of envy & The Inevitability of Envy.
Utopia, you are standing in it! 
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