A Spark by Innocent Mwatsikesimbe from The Vision, chapter 4

Wishing for someone to fail is, Innocent suggests, a sign of immaturity — and a strangely self-harming one. The device you’re reading this on, the clothes you have on, the vegetables you ate earlier: you made almost none of it. We depend on each other, and trade now runs at a more sophisticated level than ever, so “the world needs successful people” is a description of how your day works, not a nicety.

So the energy goes somewhere better. Rather than hoping anyone falls, “you ought to think of ways to make yourself more valuable, and society too as a result.”

Even adversaries are worth more to you succeeding than failing, which is why he wishes they would do the same as he does: add value. Nobody has to fail for you to rise.