This slogan is quite straightforward: you hope that somebody else will suffer so you can benefit from it.
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Although it may benefit us if someone else experiences misfortune, we should not wish for that and dream about what we could get out of such a situation.

From TRAINING THE MIND by Chgyam Trungpa, 1993 by Diana Mukpo.
Published by arrangement with Shambhala Publications, Inc., Boston.