Envy is an unfortunate side effect of vanity. Leftists ride to power on the flames of envy so they incite vanity and envy at every opportunity, and the urban media helps them. History shows though that happiness and prosperity only come to nations to the extent they succeed at suppressing envy.
A more sober population living according to spiritual principles would help instead of a drug and alcohol driven one with emotional outbursts of religious zealotry mixed in as is often the case with “the masses”.