• Rodentsteak [he/him]
    cake
    hexagon
    ·
    4 years ago

    Dilbert is a non stop deluge of criticism of capitalism,and the guy who wrote it is Scott Adams

    • wantonviolins [they/them]
      arrow-down
      1
      ·
      4 years ago

      Gotta wonder about the dude, did the lead poisoning hit all at once or what?

      • Barabas [he/him]
        ·
        4 years ago

        He has always been a weirdo. Just that he didn't get delusions of grandeur until he "predicted" the 2016 election by saying that Trump won through hypnotism. Since then he has gone on to give all his readers big cums with his hypnotic powers.

      • Cherufe [he/him]
        ·
        4 years ago

        He had brain surgery for spasmodic dysphonia in 2015, but I dont know what that is

              • anaesidemus [he/him]
                ·
                4 years ago

                ok, wow, i mean you can sort of understand regular surgery as a layman but neurological surgery looks like a different thing altogether. Thanks for that.

                and now that you mention it, dentistry seems like it doesn't have many transferable skills to regular doctoring since teeth are so unique. They are most likely not fake doctors but certainly a different type of doctor.

                  • anaesidemus [he/him]
                    ·
                    4 years ago

                    For me it's easier to visualize veins and organs, nerves are like magic wires that should never be messed with. If you know what all those words mean then it probably sounds and looks simple. In your example you are basically just replacing and redirecting a wire.

                    Specialists hating on other specialists for weird and obscure reasons is never not fascinating :)

    • Ketamine_device_tech [none/use name]
      ·
      4 years ago

      non stop deluge of criticism of capitalism

      fascism is an ideology which attempts to resolve the contradictions of capital without actually making any material conflict against the bourgeoisie.

      • Rodentsteak [he/him]
        cake
        hexagon
        ·
        edit-2
        4 years ago

        But half his fucking comics are in fact about the the material conflict between the owners of the corporation and the workers in that corporation. He even has entire arcs about ruthless exploitation of the second and third world for resources and labour.

  • FnordPrefect [comrade/them, he/him]
    ·
    4 years ago

    Wait, was his intent for us to be sympathizing/identifying with the boss the whole time and his opinions are so bad that everyone thought it was a joke?

    • Rem [she/her]
      ·
      4 years ago

      I think it's more incoherent than that. The boss is supposed to be a Democrat.

    • kilternkafuffle [any]
      ·
      4 years ago

      I think the joke is that the boss is acting woke (or whatever was the equivalent 50 years ago), while the (obvious, undeniable, and just) reality is that some get paid less than others. Scott Adams would have no problem with honest exploitation, he's only mocking the hypocrisy.

      • star_wraith [he/him]
        ·
        edit-2
        4 years ago

        Right, Adams thinks he would be the brilliant office worker who should get paid like 50X what the receptionist makes, but it's somehow "socialism" that he only makes 3X what they do, because his contributions are so much more valuable.

    • Rodentsteak [he/him]
      cake
      hexagon
      ·
      4 years ago

      I know you want ot point towards fascism here, but I have 3 things to tell you there bucko.

      1: Fascism is not anticapitalist.
      2: Scott Adams is most assuredly not anticapitalist
      3: Plenty of actual communist movements have been pretty socially conservative.

      • kilternkafuffle [any]
        ·
        4 years ago

        Fascism cosplays as anticapitalism. But criticism of capitalism doesn't have to be ideologically anticapitalist. Noticing the contradictions in capitalism is just thinking for yourself, but it doesn't necessarily lead to any particular ideology - it can even reinforce capitalism.

    • SteveHasBunker [he/him]
      ·
      4 years ago

      He’s not really an anti-capitalist though. Dilbert was always about mocking the stupidity of PMC office bureaucratics. Plenty of people in the 80s and 90s hated BS office job politics who were, none the less, conservative or otherwise right wing. They just thought capitalism was supposed to be burly dudes cutting down trees and shit.

        • SteveHasBunker [he/him]
          ·
          4 years ago

          Thing is I suspect these types of people wouldn’t be anti-capitalist even if they did. A lot of people who made “lol office jerbz suc” media were chuds. Cuz yeah office jobs suck, but you’re also getting paid a middle class income to sit inside an air conditioned building. It wasn’t till after the financial crash pushed a lot of people into the service industry that everyone realized that as boring as they were a lot of those jobs were pretty Cush.

  • fitterr
    ·
    edit-2
    1 year ago

    deleted by creator

    • YOuLibsWoulD [he/him]
      ·
      4 years ago

      Communism is when the boss gets paid more, also when everyone gets paid the same.

  • cilantrofellow [any]
    ·
    edit-2
    4 years ago

    It’s funny because this ancap dmv clerk I used to hang out with was/is a huge Dilbert fan.