Munger points how out our evolutionary desire to own others’ possessions leads to worse situations like hatred, fights and so on. Abraham Tesser’s academic research on the Self-Evaluation Model counterintuitively shows that our self-esteem suffers and therefore, feel the most jealous of other people when they’re:
Close to us (ie – sibling, friend)
Outcompeting us in areas that are important to us
Source:
Michael Simmons & Ian Chew
