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It expresses itself in the way all people are always jealous of those who have more wealth than they do. It matters little that they are already super wealthy or super poor or any iteration in between. If someone has more wealth than you, you are jealous of them.
It runs strongly from the poorest to the richest with the same intensity throughout.
There are some people who are not as jealous of wealth as the general collective and these people tend to be those who have found a way to deal with death already or are on the way to finding out about it.
Imagine a poor African living on a dollar day. Then imagine a westerner living on what the planet savers call 'the poverty line'. The African would laugh at them - they are rich in comparison. Likewise for the same westerner spiting the billionaire. But the differential is the same. This jealousy pathology is encouraged socially but no one seems to be aware we are doing it.
It also makes no difference to the jealous of wealth whether or not the wealthy person being spited might have earned it - an earned income. No difference at all. All that matters is that the spited wealthy person has got more. Nor does it matter that the poor African has earned the little they have got. All that matters is that they have less.
In both cases it may well be true that neither in fact earned their wealth and received the income as an unearned income. But this essential factor is always quickly overlooked. What matters above all else is that we are jealous of wealth. Observed facts are not important when it comes to our jealousy of wealth.
The next curious factor which sneaks in is that there should be a cap or a floor for incomes enforced by the state. While the state is notorious for making people poorer. Yes they do a few things which make people richer. But this is never deliberate. And it's more the case that the state makes people poorer anyway whenever they try to help by doing things they are historically terrible at doing time and again. And rarely does the state focus on the few things which it is good at. It is most curious. I am pro state by the way. It's that the people have yet to elect a functioning one in a thousand years.
So how crazy does one need to be to vote for such a 'cap and floor' policy? Very crazy, given it has a tendency to cause untold excess deaths, proven time and again in each experiment where they forget about what happened the last time it was tried. Sure, these deaths are indirect. And only directly caused deaths are important to the great mass it seems.
Following on from cap and floor policy, we have its sister, 'paying one's fair share of tax'. OK, can anyone tell me what's my fair share and who exactly decides that it is fair? Is that task simply left to the most jealous demagogue of all to decide? Given we are too jealous to allow ourselves to make the distinction between earned and unearned incomes - if I've not earned my income or part of it how can it be taxed exactly? And if I have earned it, why is it being taxed at all when there is a vast quantity of the unearned kind already? Taxing unearned incomes, by implication, cannot possibly harm productivity - there is nothing in such an income which impinges on the production of wealth we're all jealous of others having more of. Besides, it's widely accepted even by people who support it that taxing earned incomes kills millions of people annually. But that's OK isn't it, the deaths are merely the indirect ones. Killing one person directly is terrible. But a million indirectly is just a statistic evidently.
The secondary pathology of paying ones fair share is who knows exactly what anyone's fair share is. Presently this jealousy of wealth agenda states simply that it's anyone with more than me. OK, lets go into this some more. The westerner on benefits earns hugely more then the African. Should the westerner pay more of his 'fair share'? And if not why not. He lives like a king compared to the African.
So you can see broadly how jealousy of wealth works as a tribal narrative - a means by which the people control the people. Do not get confused. People are power. Not the leaders they elect who are a mere proxy for the same people who always do what the people in power want. If the people are being manipulated it's by the people, not wealth and power. It matters little that when placed under proper scrutiny jealousy of wealth theory makes little sense. It only matters that it sounds good upfront when buying and selling votes - the people sell their vote, the leaders the people elect buy their vote. It's like a legal contract - both counter party's agree and benefit from it else it would never go ahead.
Probably the most curious thing of all, is that there is no shortage of anything in the world anymore, so why are people still jealous of those who have more than them? Sure, we are told by numerous fear and control programs everything is running short. But anyone can calculate quickly with broad numbers there are incredible levels of wealth available and the fear programs are just more hoaxes. Yes, the distribution of this abundance still needs dealing with of course. But while we are all still possessed by jealousy of wealth? Isn't our pathological jealousy the root cause of the maldistribution already? By our uncontrolled jealousy we redistribute from those who have earned it to those who have not...on a whim. No wonder.
Finally, why do you care if someone has more than you have, why are you so jealous when you already have plenty? What is so wrong with you that when you have enough it's still not acceptable that others have more than enough than you? And you are nowhere near starvation. Not even close. If you already have plenty, why are you still jealous of those who have more than you? It's no use saying that it's only fair that those who have less than you should receive from those who have more than you. But we've already been through all this above, it is circular reasoning, brought on by your jealousy perhaps?
I've just told you about the social pathology called 'jealousy of wealth'. Let us call it Jealousy of Wealth Theory, a name for future analysts to focus on.
It expresses itself in the way all people are always jealous of those who have more wealth than they do. It matters little that the same people are already super wealthy. If someone has more wealth than them they are jealous.
The pathology runs strongly from the poorest to the richest with the same intensity throughout. Jealousy of wealth is yet another tribal narrative. It does not have to be real for it to be widely adopted and upheld by both stupid and intelligent people in very high number.
This is the power of the narrative. What you do, your walking, is irrelevant. What you say, your talking, in signalling obedience to your tribe is all that matters in your climb up the social hierarchy. Jealousy of wealth is an excellent way to signal to the tribe you are a loyal part of it.