Trading Places is a stupid movie starring Eddie Murphy and Dan Ackroyd. The rich white guy got played into poverty and desperation, and fell into a drunken, bitter, jealous rage.
Meanwhile, the street hustling black man gets lifted into opportunity and proves smarter, and kinder, than the grifters who invented the game. The only likeable characters are played by Eddie Murphy and Jamie Lee Curtis.
I'm not going to feel sorry for the mean kid throwing a tantrum when things don't go his way. This article, How US authors worried over white poverty in 2017 – and forgot about everyone else, says it well. 2017 was the year of eliciting sympathy for those whites who feel ripped off, left out, mistreated and forgotten. They haven't achieved the American Dream and this supposedly explains their willingness to blow up democracy with unwavering support for a bragging bully aka whiny dictator wanna be. We spent a year hearing about white resentment, because, as Rafia Zakaria states simply, "they, unlike brown or black workers, have lost the good life instead of never having been able to get to it."
Remember the saying, a rising tide lifts all boats? A sea of people don't have boats or bootstraps and we're supposed to sympathize with the outraged white guy waving a gun, demanding his ticket to ride, yelling at everyone to get out of his way. I wish I could say folks like Winthorpe the 3rd can't ruin it for everyone just because he's having a hard time. If we don't stand up, the angry whites might just get away with it, "and nothing says freedom like getting away with it."
Long long time