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by theclansman 817 days ago
It's hard to not be cynical when you read stuff like "Envy is like drinking poison expecting the other person to die." which is like 2 different inspirational quotes taped together, I heard this one about hatred rather than envy.
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I've heard it as "Holding a grudge" instead of envy/hatred, which makes more sense to me.
Envy has its uses. It reveals what you want. It's a good thing to know yourself and what you want out of life.
The positive side of wanting what others have is called inspiration or something like that, "you inspire me to work hard so I can be like you" etc, nobody calls that envy.

Envy is purely negative in a social sense, it makes you fight people just because they have stuff you want. It is beneficial to your own genes but not beneficial to humanity.