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I'm curious how you think this worked in the specific case here of Scott Adams. His Dilbert has been on a decline for ages, and it still manages to be one of t
by colomon 13y ago
I'm curious how you think this worked in the specific case here of Scott Adams. His Dilbert has been on a decline for ages, and it still manages to be one of the most consistently funny comic strips out there. In his heyday probably half of the tech guys in the US had one of his comics posted on the wall of their cubical.
How did his (alleged) people, connections, and family money make that happen? Have they been hiring funny people to ghostwrite the strip? Did they make sure funnier writers were blacklisted? Did they somehow send him to a mystical funny school? If people were being paid to hang up his strips on their wall, I never got my check...
- acuozzo 13y ago> How did his (alleged) people, connections, and family money make that happen? Did Scott Adams grow up in a slum and receive a US "inner city" education? Alternatively, did he grow up on a farm with a family that expected him to work to help support it once he could drop-out of school without repercussion? Are you starting to see where this is going?
- scott_karana 13y agoYou seem to be conflating "rich" with "not poor".
- acuozzo 13y agoWho said anything about `rich'? Neither I nor the parent ever used the word.
- scott_karana 13y agoThe great grandparent who started off the line of reasoning was pretty explicit about it, saying things like the following: > 99% of the "Successful" kids I went to school with had rich parents In either case, you're referring to a poor minority of Americans. I don't think anyone else was arguing that average Americans are overprivileged compared to ... other average Americans. (If I misinterpreted, please let me know: I've been on a roll today.)