I haven't read the fine article, but from what you and others have said, this is the distinction between envy and jealousy. E.g.:

Jealousy: your wife is beautiful, I'm going to kill you and take her.

Envy: your farm is very prosperous. I know I don't have the skills to run one that well, so I'm just going to destroy your's.

Envy is alive and very healthy, and as a result a whole lot of a whole lot of societies aren't so healthy.

We, as people who can do stuff others can't necessarily even conceive of, are prime targets of envy.