Claude Coueny on bullying the jealous: Envy of late risers

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“Finding a scapegoat is the easiest thing to do,” US President Dwight D. Eisenhower (1890–1969) once said. In the same year, 1540, the perpetrators of capricious weather were sought. For eleven months there was practically no rain – with very high temperatures. The greatest natural disaster in Europe is described in detail in more than 300 chronicles. Without a doubt, someone has bewitched nature. The 50-year-old magician Prista Frubottin was accused and on June 29, 1540 “spoiled and withered.”

When something goes wrong, it’s time for the envious. Digital hunting stirs up would-be scapegoats. Not so long ago, it was the old white man who spoiled the climate. Because the predominantly female voice of climate religion also has dear dads and grandfathers, a “rich” old white male has been changed and re-identified as the culprit. But after the rumor spread that Greta and Co. grew up in families of millionaires and one day will inherit millions, the agitation subsided again, and the “super-rich” white old man was released to be shot. It doesn’t matter if someone became super-rich through birth, marriage, inheritance, or achievement. This populist blur is not unlike the hysteria of witches.

Envious people always see flower beds, but never a shovel. I don’t care if other people are millionaires or billionaires, if they hide private jets like other beer crates, if they live in mansions with 18 bathrooms. For one simple reason: it does not affect my well-being or my bowel movements. And one toilet is enough for me to pee.

For people who get up for the first time in bed at nine o’clock in the morning, successful highly paid workers do not motivate, as in Asia, but cause envy and resentment. They would like to forbid the early birds to get up before nine o’clock. So that everyone was equally small. We see what this leads to in schools: the requirements are lowered until everyone is equally bad.

If you don’t like paying taxes, you should be happy for every super-rich. Those who are simply jealous create no added value and hurt themselves the most.

Claude Cueny (67) is a writer based in Basel. Most recently, his thriller Dirty Talk was released.

Source: Blick