I always thought they took a situation and exaggerate it to the absurd. Now I know that they were actually being conservative. AFAIR, Dilbert creator Scot Adam

I always thought they took a situation and exaggerate it to the absurd. Now I know that they were actually being conservative. AFAIR, Dilbert creator Scot Adams always made sure to keep Dilbert vague and a bit extreme. But people would write into him recognising some absurd part of a current strip and ask if he was really writing about Company X?