It wasn’t until I got to the cigarettes and cunts as currency that I realized this was not a particularly hardcore monologue from Gravity Falls, a popular show I had not watched, but Gravity’s Rainbow. Great excerpt though.

“Hey, it’s cold out here!”

That said, I’m somewhat in awe of your standards given its thirty foot tall height.

One of the examples from your wiki source on the font is in Hong Kong. It’s literally just a calligraphy font using brush strokes, you don’t write in pinyin in Chinese, so the only place it’s used is to communicate east Asian calligraphy in Latin characters. The controversy is when it’s paired with racist portrayals, not that it’s racist in itself.

There is, but it’s basically made up to support the notion that it’s very difficult to stay rich. It’s actually very rare for subsequent generations to lose inherited wealth, it just gets partitioned out so there are dozens or hundreds of rich people instead of one disgustingly wealthy individual.

Similar to lottery winners losing everything, it makes a much bigger headline when one loses everything despite it being incredibly uncommon.