Turns out I was (maybe not envious, but certainly naive).

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We are not an envious people who vilify success.

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Americans, historically, have not been envious of wealth.

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Those virtues, they argued, underpinned their economic miracles and won envious admiration abroad, not least in Western countries bent under the weight of their social obligations.

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