One of the cruellest aspects of the poverty mindset is the desire to pull everyone down to your level, with the result that nobody escapes.

Or, you can lift each other up, and throw down a ladder every time you get ahead.

There’s a Simpsons episode where Patty dates Principal Skinner but breaks up with him due to her sister’s jealousy. They are all miserable.

Or, she could have married him and helped her sister find a date.

I have a daughter, so I have to think of the messages that my actions send her. Right now it’s “sometimes you have to work hard for many years but eventually it pays off if you don’t give up.”

There’s no place for envy in that lesson plan.