Billionaire Bill Ackman's simple pickup line 'May I meet you?' aims to solve declining population rates, but the author counters with a critique of societal issues and reveals other questionable relationship tips from figures like Trump, Jesse Watters, and Elon Musk.
The article satirically dissects billionaire Bill Ackman's viral dating advice: the four-word pickup line 'May I meet you?'. Ackman claims this line, effective due to 'proper grammar and politeness,' helped him in his youth and can now combat the decline of spontaneous meetings and boost 'population replacement rates,' particularly when used in motion. The author, however, expresses deep skepticism, arguing that systemic issues like the high cost of living, lack of affordable childcare, poor public schools, and support for genocidal wars are far more significant factors in population trends than a pickup line. The piece then mockingly presents further 'relationship wisdom' from other 'rich and infamous' figures: Donald Trump's advice against wives working for their husbands, Jesse Watters's confessed tactic of sabotaging a co-worker's car to secure a date (later called a joke), Harvard economist Larry Summers's emails seeking dating advice from convicted pedophile Jeffrey Epstein, and Elon Musk and Pavel Durov's methods of offering sperm to acquaintances or funding IVF to increase population numbers. The article concludes by questioning the value of such advice from those who often exacerbate the very social issues they claim to solve.
