Slight correction: It is well known for doing nothing to the rich. A distinction as subtle as it is important...and telling.
I don't intend to be a negative Nancy about it all but I expect everything will fall through some crack or slip through some loophole or....just get looked away from, in the end. It's a pattern I've seen again and again with this man.
Now this, I can definitely see. Not to wax melancholic, but mine was an abnormal and truncated childhood, so I never found the comic personally relatable, and that might amount for the disconnect - it always came across as either outlandish and nonsensical (bordering on lolsorandumb) to faux-deep and mollycoddling of the reader's inner toddler that never seemed much more than condescending to me.
But in the context of cueing it through the hypothetical series of how a regular adult might reminisce about their own childhood, the nostalgic, near-wistful fondness I see for it makes a lot more sense, even if to me it feels saccharine and, dare I say, disingenuous.
"Shite" is kind of harsh, I'd say. It's not an awful strip. It's just made out to be much better than it really is. It's a single step above "run-of-the-mill".
I'm interested in the 'live like it's early 2020' bit; what do you mean there?