The New York Times
finds that even the very wealthy sometimes lose everything. Instead of
pondering the larger point of income mobility in a capitalist system,
as the paper would likely do if the story were about poor people going
bankrupt, the writer just gives examples of people who have come close
to or gone into bankruptcy with not a statistic to be found. The
article’s title explains all you need to know about the kind of
Schadenfreude at work here.