A Modest Proposal:
Repurpose all the old tasteless "Pollock" and "Blonde" jokes, where the punchline is always about how clueless the demographic is, but make them about billionaires.
eg:
What do you call a billionaire skeleton in the closet?
Last year's hide and seek champion.
~
A Elon Musk is helping build a smart house for Bill Gates. Gates tells him to nail up the drywall on the south wall of the living room.
When Gates comes back to check on him, he finds Musk pulling each nail out of the bucket, inspecting it, then some he would pound into the wall, while others he'd curse and throw behind him, where a pile of nails was growing.
"What's going on??" Gates shouts.
"Well, some nincompoop put the heads of those nails on backwards!"
"You fool!" screams Gates. "Those nails are for the other wall!!"
~
And so on. There are hundreds of these. With this reframing, the targets come off as being incompetent ego-inflated posers rather than "stupid." I might be able to rewrite a dozen just from memory.
Mx. Luna Corbden 🐸
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