comics for sad rules
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pictures_for_Sad_Children
In some ways “outdated”, too edgy, but in some details maybe even more relevant today than it originally was.
(1/3 of humanity having no electricity is a bit exaggerated, in 2000 it was 1/5.)
Don’t fucking put that shit on nerds. The artist isn’t describing nerds, they’re describing capitalism and it’s adherents. This isn’t about nerds. Eg I go through way fewer electronics and gadgetry than the average iPhone idiot specifically because I’m a nerd. My phone is like 7 years old and I’m about to put PostmarketOS on it to try for another 7. I’m painstakingly bootstrapping the firmware on my old Ikea and Hue lights so I never have to buy new ones. I haven’t bought a new computer in decades, I just franken-update as needed, not as desired. My car is a 2008 model because I know how awful the electronics are in new models and will do anything to avoid buying a new one.
Fuck this artist. They’re is a god damned coward apologist for capitalism and is throwing nerds under the bus to do it.