By Alexandra Petri
The Washington Post
Howard Schultz’s awkward decision during an interview with CNBC to reframe a derogatory statement about “billionaires” as criticizing “people of means” has earned a fair amount of mockery.
Is “billionaire,” as Schultz suggests, a “catchphrase” now? Should it be avoided in favor of gentler terms? Well, if this is what we’re doing, some further euphemisms follow:
fiscally tinged
wealth-charged
butler-adjacent
silver-spooned
Robin Hood victims
interested parties
trusted
Wall Street urchins
caddied Americans
self-maid men
well-endowed
summerers/winterers
huddled cashes yearning to breathe free
high-bracketed
isle-seated
principaled conservatives
estatesmen
futures farmers of America
deficit-attentive
never-in-the-red staters
gilt-y
Greed New Dealers
dollar storers
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