But what comes out of this envy?
Let us admit that you could carry through anything you undertook.

The rich man would be plundered and even killed, and his treasures divided between you.

We forget that the rich man is human; we deny him the mercy which the poor man claims from his fellowmen; we take up the position that to reduce a rich man to beggary is not the same injustice as to profit by the work of a poor man; we enjoy the idea of the rich man, hungry and shivering, when at the same time the hungry shivering poor man has become our pretext for robbing the other.

Do you believe that you would then have improved your lot in life?
Do you think that you would be any happier?
Just think it over for a moment.

The rich people are exterminated, their goods are divided among you; you are already making a discovery, viz., that the wealthy people are in a very small minority, hardly one in two hundred, and that the division of their whole property amounts to very little for each of you.