Jokes and Money Jokes and Money Reality becomes stark and visible in the context of humor, if you can abstract it. I wrote a Ph.D. thesis on the reality patterns made visible by the kinds of jokes told in different income groups. It would be fun to believe that one would achieve as much wealth as he wished by simply telling jokes until he hit the right kind.
Poverty is a joke to the wealthy, and wealth is a joke to the poor.
A person of feeling doesn't tell jokes which harm, because it reflects tiny windblown ice shards into his heart, which he in his wisdom prefers not to experience. He will laugh at the IRS or the stress of being sexual, however. To laugh your way to money requires tracing a path of humor which is not harmful. Otherwise you end up with a bag of frozen money, gripped in a frozen hand, fed by a frozen heart.