People love to use "you're just jealous of their success" to derail when you're criticising someone in a high-status position. By that logic I should be posting lengthy critiques of most performers. Ooo that Tom Hanks! And also DOOOOOHHHHHHH got a few things to say about Beyonce!
This weekend I've seen an MP who called out Sunak get called jealous and I've been told I'm "just jealous of the success" of: an abusive pop singer who has been dead almost 12 years.
"The politics of envy" is such a stupid phrase designed to discredit anybody who suggests that maybe the rich and corporations should pay a fairer share of tax so that, ya know, people all get to eat and sleep indoors and stuff in one of the richest countries on earth.
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