Is this claim about the psychology behind income redistribution accurate?
Clinical psychologist and political commentator Jordan Peterson makes the following claim in this video:
> There's an increasingly voluminous body of psychological research suggesting that one of the best predictors of the desire to redistribute income isn't fairness — which, if measured properly, doesn't seem to enter into the equation at all — but malicious envy.
I'm aware that Peterson is often wrong on political topics since they're outside his area of expertise, but here he's making a claim based on psychological research on personality, for which I believe he's fairly well respected. Is there any evidence supporting this claim?
u/wweidealfan — 2 days ago