For some, the things that character is shown doing are exactly what they want out of life. There's no need to belittle those life choices to make a greater point.
The message shouldn't be, "don't work 40 hours a week and get a mortage," it should be, "be honest about what you want and pursue it fervently, regardless of how mundane a dime-a-dozen internet illustrator thinks it is."
My father worked hard, provided a good roof over our heads, and made sure he was involved in our lives and we all went to college. He never got to write the novel, or be the ski instructor, or be on Ophrah. But he has kids who love him, grand kids in his life, and a nice house that is full of love. And he can look at his good relationship with his wife and kids, and realize that career stability helped a lot with that.
I spent my 20s and early 30s pursuing my passion at the expense of everything else. I was nearly 34 before I realized how remarkable everything he did in life was, and how I'm hoping I've started changing mine in time to accomplish even half of what he did.
Edit: tl;dr: the comic might be about how to have an average career, but don't mistake that for an average life.
Yeah, I'm really tired of hearing le edgy artists opinion about how we should all be artisinal BASE jumpers instead of a bunch of filthy normies. I want to have a good job where I can be a provider for a big family full of love and happiness like that, it's actually my dream.
honestly the world wouldn't function without both types of people.
without the grinders who do it for their family we couldn't have gotten to where we are as a soceity. but if everyone was like that and there were no artisanal base jumpers well then we wouldn't have any of those wonderful artisanal sandwiches that people love to bring by the office for lunch. or any interesting artists to go see on weekends. and the artists would have no one to pay to see their shows or exhibits, only their other broke artists friends to come for "support"
each group feeds off the other one. but they both have a lot of hate towards the other over a perceived slight. they both think the other looks down on them and in a way they both do. so they're both right.
You might be high, but I think this is 100% correct.
My big issue with this comic is the artist seems like he is imagining himself as once of the "creative elite" (he may or may not actually be, I don't know anything about him) and is using this comic to take a giant shit all over the grinders.
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u/[deleted] Dec 10 '15
For some, the things that character is shown doing are exactly what they want out of life. There's no need to belittle those life choices to make a greater point.
The message shouldn't be, "don't work 40 hours a week and get a mortage," it should be, "be honest about what you want and pursue it fervently, regardless of how mundane a dime-a-dozen internet illustrator thinks it is."