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The thing is, I was thinking it's actually real--not satire, but tone-deaf "poverty roleplaying" performative "see? I know what the poors are experiencing" kind of thing.
That this wasn't even limited to this internet age, that this had precedence back in the gilded age: https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2018/04/poverty-party-invitations-from-the-gilded-age.html
I've heard of such a thing also during the Great Depression, where rich socialites threw "poverty parties" while there's actual hunger everywhere else.