See I get what you were doing there, it was funny. But the downvotes thought you were putting down the thread jokes for real. You were basically pointing out that the best jokes are actual life.
There's some evidence that he read Atlas Shrugged, which is about a poor executive who "suffers" under increasing government regulation. It's like a bible for CEOs
Yeah, this is a classic example of a problem that looks very simple if you haven't researched it at all, but it's an absolute mess once you start digging into the details.