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Envy isn't achievement and never will be

Envy isn't achievement and never will be

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Tom Knighton
May 09, 2023
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Envy isn't achievement and never will be
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There are people in this world who haven’t accomplished much of anything. For some, they tried and failed miserably. For others, they didn’t even bother.

Now, neither of these is inherently wrong. People have freedom and they have the freedom to do what they want, even if what they want is nothing at all.

Where I start to develop a problem is when they pretend their lack of achievement is a virtue and that their envy of another’s accomplishments is really evidence the other person is evil.

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