Hi giovonni,
I'm not too sure where Schadenfreude fits into the discussion, however can understand the concept.
I just understood from an unrelated topic that Larry Silverstein is renting five floors of one of his commercial buildings to the "China Center" a complex that administers Chinese companies which will work out of New York,
""The announcement of the China Center is a step toward economic recovery for New York. The Vantone Group's commitment to helping New York become the western headquarters location for the increasing number of global businesses coming out of China is extremely important to our city’s future as a global capital of business and finance.”
ff.The “China Center” lease is being administered by Silverstein Properties, Inc. a “partner company” in the PNYC. It is owned by Larry A. Silverstein, the infamous real estate tycoon, and alleged heroin drug trafficker, who cashed in on his timely $3.2 billion lease of the World Trade Center property seven weeks before “9-11” (2001). The subsidiary of GE Capitol, Industrial Risk Insurers company, paid some of Mr. Silverstein alleged loss of $7 billion needed to reconstruct the new World Trade Center.
gg.The top 5 floors of this new construction, “Chinese Center” is administered by Vantone Group director Feng Lun (pronounced Fung LEW-in).
hh.Feng Lun, according to Mr. Silverstein’s press announcement, is “a pioneer of China's booming real estate market, so influential that some of the biggest names in American real estate, like Jerry Speyer, Mortimer Zuckerman and Sam Zell, have expressed an interest in forming a partnership with him.”"
The above text is from the "Affidavit" of Dr. Leonard G. Horowitz cited in another thread about swine flu in these forums.
Are the Chinese closer than everybody thinks?
Best regards,
Steve
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Originally Posted by giovonni
Maybe~ a misery loves company thing
Here's my 2 cents 
From the German phrase> Schadenfreude
is pleasure derived from the misfortunes of others.
two examples to this thought of reasoning;
Example 1
"When person A is unhappy, they don't get satisfaction from other people being happy and cheerful, in fact that can be annoying. Instead, unhappy person A may take a certain dismal pleasure in someone else experiencing a misfortune, especially a similar one." |