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The Gift that was Ever Given (and keeps on giving) — the best story of all time)

The delicious guilty pleasure of being an onlooker over someone else’s misfortunes is called epicaricacy. The French call it joie maligne: the joy in other people’s suffering. It’s a national sport in the UK, but actually, it’s a human condition. Mistakes make us human, they knock heroes off pedestals, and it’s just so refreshing to be reminded that they happen — that none of us are perfect.

Of this I am sure — the blocking of the Suez Canal was the mother of all Schadenfreude.

And if you have zero idea what I’m talking about (I know these people are still out there), let me fill you in. As they say, a picture tells a thousand words —

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But to give more context —

• On March 23rd, 2021, one of the largest ever container ships in the world, MV Ever Given, ran aground in bad weather in one of the narrowest sections of the Suez Canal, one of the busiest maritime shipping routes in the world.
• Lloyd’s List calculated that blocking the canal cost $400 million an hour, based on valuations of the canal’s westbound traffic at roughly $5.1 billion a day…