That's right. For the competitive people out there, you must know that when you are suppressing envy and being happy for other people's success you might be losing the competition against those other people. They might have the fastest car or the biggest house and that might sting, but you are showing the middle finger to Nature and/or God which is a much bigger achievement.

what else have envy and greed driven? What would the world look like without those inate human emotions? It might be a simpler place but potentially the worst of history could have been avoided.

> What would the world look like without those inate human emotions?

We'd be living nasty, brutish and short lives in caves.