Envy is supposed to be wanting what someone else has. The object is the last thing it reads: envy is a reading on both axes at once — a symmetry between you and a peer has broken and become a rank you do not permit to stand — which is why it tracks the colleague and not the billionaire, why their loss satisfies it as well as your gain, and why admiration and envy are one reading held at two poles. … readWhat Is Envy