That sounds, as the kids might say, kinda sus.
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That movie really managed to come out at the right time, didn’t it? Now there’s two of its archetypes that are currently on the news and in the public consciousness (even if Batista’s character was based more on Joe Rogan rather than Tate, I’m sure)
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Shakespeare has entered the chat.
“All of life’s a stage,” and all that.
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That’s the Knives Out formula for you: murder mystery driven by social commentary archetypes.
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The timing certainly worked well but even if it had been a few years or even two decades ago people would have found a billionaire that they could have associated with the character. Maybe Richard Branson (who dabbles in many companies, including civilian rockets) or even Paul Allen, a tech billionaire and megayacht enthusiast who funded SpaceShipOne and Stratolaunch.
And, of course, there’s never any shortage of corrupt politicians who are beholden to their billionaire donors.
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It’s a shame that so much of that falls to teachers nowadays.
Makes me wonder about the school culture over there vs in the US. Over here, in most places there’s such focus on improving standardized test scores that K-12 educators I know say it’s hard to fit in anything else, anything like these lessons in decency and morality. The good ones find ways, but it’s a struggle.
And I’m sure soon we’ll see certain states making lessons like that illegal. 
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It’s the same here. Schools are underfunded and under-resourced, and under pressure to improve test and exam results.
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