Yo, Reader's Digest, please adjust your humor

[elfs]

Reader's Digest "Life Is Funny" joke:

Overheard: Little girl reading a book about knights: "Mom, what's our family crest?"
Mom: "Poor people being crushed by a boot."

Can someone tell me why this is "funny," rather than trenchantly, obviously, painfully true?

Comments

[rhonan.livejournal.com]

The humor depends on how you read it. If you identify as the poor folk being crushed under the boot of Capitalism, it's gallows humor.