In Buddhism it is taught to not look up, because you will only depress yourself, and don't look down, because you will become arrogant.

Bruce Lee also taught along these lines. To improve yourself instead of tearing others down.

However, it is quite childish, and quite normal in our society for people to look at others getting ahead, and wanting what they have, and thus think of ways to "bring them down to size".

We don't normally like to see people suffer, but when you been suffering for a long time, and see others as the cause of your suffering, than it becomes easy to envision their suffering.

The greatest illusion pulled on the masses is "money". Where, all that is left is fiat currency. An illusion of an illusion of money. And so, a handful of people have made everyone to suffer. Financial planners talk about compound interest. None of them talk about compound debt. And this is what we have. A slow grinding of everyone who touches the things called US Dollars.

It is this invisible suffering that has caused a great deal of what you have wrote here. But it is not human nature.