Quote from probe1957:
Maybe he did. Maybe he didn't. I don't know. What I do know is so many posters here seem to get some kind of thrill out of others losing money. I don't get that mentality.
Schadenfreude, "delighting in others' misfortune". Many studies on Schadenfreude are based on social comparison theory, the idea that when people around us have bad luck, we look better to ourselves. Other researchers have found that people with low self-esteem are more likely to feel schadenfreude than are people who have high self-esteem.
