Volitmand,

Great observations. An additional thought:

People who walk envy people with a bicycle.
People with a bicycle envy people with a used car.
People with a used car envy people with a new car.
People with a car envy people who can fly.
People who fly coach envy people in first class.
People in first class envy people with fractional jet ownership.
People with fractional jet ownership envy people who own their own Cessna Citation.
People with a Citation envy people with a Gulfstream G4.
People with a Gulfstream G4 envy people with a G5.
People with a G5 envy people with two.
People with two envy people with three.
Etc.

Perhaps envyism is simply envy metastasized. You reach the limit of your own personal envy, and you encourage others to envy to validate your own. Or because your own envy is so obviously contrived.

There is no limit to envy. Consuming to be happy always ends up consuming one’s happiness.

L3