argumentum ad invidiam
(An argument to envy); an appeal to low passions.
Not something I'm recommending, in case you're wondering.
I got the phrase from James Mill's defense of Say's Law against an assault by a Mandevillian Physiocrat.*
But read Sowell's A Dangerous Obsession and Dangerous Obsession II. Okay, that last is #3 of 5 on Townhall.
Looks like I need to catch up.
*Keynes could be called a Mandevillian Mercantilist.
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