This a psychological phenomenon where, as long as someone isn't doing better than you, you feel a sense of comfort knowing you're not the only one struggling. But the moment you find out they’re excelling, you start having this silent animosity towards the person.
A perfect example would be when NEPA takes light, the first thing you do is look out to see if it’s not only your building. If it is, you feel bad, and if it’s not, you feel relaxed. This is known as Relative Deprivation and Social Comparison Theory.
In a society heavily plagued by systemic poverty, seeing a peer succeed while you remain stagnant triggers this latent resentment. Most of the time, you aren't actually angry at the person's success; you're experiencing Equity Theory at play, frustrated that you’ve put in the exact same effort, yet haven't achieved the same reward.
The wildest part of poverty is how much time it steals.
Moving from one stall to another at the market pricing around because of #100 different.
Being poor is a second job nobody pays you for.