There are different ways of looking at envy in society. There are ways that elevate envy to a kind of a passion that then consumes the society. And really socialism, in my view, is trying to do that. It's an immensely envy conscious, although it doesn't tend to admit this - envy conscious, envy mobilizing movement. I think that if you can draw this into the attention of the person that you're trying to convince, that you're trying to argue with, it will take some of the sense of that person that he or she is on the high ground in arguing for equality away from that. Because (...) you can't congratulate yourself quite as much in arguing for envy, in my view.

Bill Evers "How to Convince a Socialist to Become a Libertarian"