Grant Posted April 2, 2008 Report Share Posted April 2, 2008 I see this ridiculously ignorant cartoon is garnering a large amount of support on Digg: http://digg.com/political_opinion/You_Capi...re_So_Smart_pic Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zip Posted April 2, 2008 Report Share Posted April 2, 2008 Maybe if dumb were more painful fewer people would do it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kori Posted April 2, 2008 Report Share Posted April 2, 2008 I don't see why that would be called a comic. There really isn't anything funny about it...no punchline or anything. And to boot, the drawings aren't good at all, either. *shrug* I still say my comic Logical Phalluses is much better. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
D'kian Posted April 2, 2008 Report Share Posted April 2, 2008 Toles has a good drawing style for a cartoonist. That exhausts all the good things one can say about the man as a cartoonist, too. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brian0918 Posted April 2, 2008 Report Share Posted April 2, 2008 It's nice to see that most of the comments left on that page realize the idiocy of the cartoon. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Benpercent Posted April 4, 2008 Report Share Posted April 4, 2008 The main problem I have with the comic is the context-dropping. It is never said how this Capitalist has "earned" his money (you can morally obtain money, but not have earned it, as with the case with some bum abstract artists) or what investments he made. Also, it ignores the fact that the government has caused this economic problem by destroying or taking capital, and also driving some companies into a corner, such as health insurance companies that have to offer equal coverage but are forbidden to raise their rates (thus driving them out of business, though ignorantly unintentionally). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
andre_sanchez Posted April 4, 2008 Report Share Posted April 4, 2008 It's actually quite funny. I laughed out loud. Not exactly "OMG THIS IS HILARIOUS", but it's a decent cartoon. People don't get paid based on how smart they are, they get paid based on how productive they are. A "capitalist" (the term is incorrect, since he is actually describing a manager) that does not produce, that wrecks his company, may legitimately own the money he got paid, but he does so as a sort of second-hander. As such, it's not offensive. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mammon Posted April 5, 2008 Report Share Posted April 5, 2008 The ignorance here is that this isn't capitalism, but the opposite. And the comment says "This isn't capitalism, it's corportism!" Well, not a lot of people are saying the U.S. system is capitalism, just capitalistic. And they won't admit it's socialistic, they have to make a new word for it so they don't associate it with socialism. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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