My copy of the book literally has the pig going to the market, and looking at stalls in the illustration. Therefore I defend my ignorance.
So as a film editor…my job is bullshit?
Art is bullshit now? That’s kind of what I’m hearing.
It depends. Do you edit videos for pragerU? Or you do something more useful for society like PornHub?
So as a film editor…my job is bullshit?
Well, if you can't imagine a pig wearing clothes doing your job, then yes!
What's up with your imagination that you cannot imagine a pig artist in a children's book?
Really...? (AI bullshit imagination incoming)
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I think the test passes. What do you think the job is in each image?
I mean, can you or can you not picture your job being done by a pig wearing clothes in a children's book?
Because I can picture a pig with a boater hat and round glasses carrying a pile of half-unspooled film reels, a pair of safety scissors and a roll of tape on their belt.
And before you complain about it being an old-fashioned depiction, the OOP isn't exactly how a modern butcher works either.
This is the entire problem I pointed out with my first comment. The entire joke hinges on “some jobs are not legitimate,” and if any of us bring up any potential examples you can simply say “well I can picture it so no it’s fine.” It’s a convenient on/off switch that makes the claim invincible because the target can be moved at any time to any location.
At the end of the day the problem is simple: we should generally not look down on people just trying to pay their bills. Yes we can hand wave it away with [insert super moray dubious job] but that’s not what this post is pointing to.
The question isn't whether someone in the comments section can imagine the job, it's whether the same 'you' who does the job can imagine the job being done by a pig in a children's book.
Also, if you're complaining about it being unfalsibiable, don't give more examples for them to judge, ask the people defending the joke for counterexamples. That's just logical (in the literal mathematical sense). That is to say, jobs that can't be pictured as something done by pigs in children's books.
There I would say hedge fund managers, health insurance coverage evaluators, and telemarketers.
As for looking down on people for just trying to pay their bills, how do you come to that conclusion? Unemployed people and chronically disabled people don't have real jobs either. Do you look down on them? If not, why assume people are looking down on people who do fake jobs to pay the bills?
Why do you think this post isn't pointing to super morally dubious jobs?
I think you’re giving a very generous interpretation to this post in an attempt to win an internet argument.
It’s a flawed joke. The ambiguity lends itself to the interpretation that certain work is more legitimate than others without giving a real definition, meaning people will likely insert their own prejudices. Especially because of the moving target aspect.
Basically this feels like another flavor of boomer humor.
this has severe conservative energy. the fuck is this even supposed to mean? if you're paid for it, it's a job, dumbass. that's literally the only metric.
Your statement prior to my link was that "There are lots of things you wouldn’t see in a children’s book" which I have sufficiently defeated quite handily. Since you seem unsatisfied, how about this:
I wouldn’t say having a pet bunny is bad, even if it is gay
As for a serial killer thriller book. I don’t think it’s intended for children there have been adult comic books before
I think you are intentionally lying to be contrarian
I think it's alluding to the theory set out in this book:
well at least this is a more specific take and, apart from duct tapers, seems roughly sensible in what it's trying to say, if i understood correctly from my cursory glance, that jobs should be more fulfilling than making the elite feel better.
but the tweet is doing a very bad job if this is really what they're alluding to. the tweet's framing is more similar to reactionary rhetoric against sex work, entertainment and art, clean jobs, and basically anything that's not coal mining.
reactionary rhetoric against sex work
Oh, I can definitely see an animal doing sex work in a... Not-children's book. I think that's the whole idea behind furries.
It's the "children's book" bit that's the important bit though. Basically he's advocating for a child's view of the world, where a job requires hitting things with a hammer.
The irony of course been that the artist who drew that book, presumably wouldn't be considered to have a worthwhile job by this philosophy.
I think it's trying to say that intellectual jobs are not jobs. Which is demonstrably not true.
If all the investment bankers went away we'd probably be fine but if all the cyber security experts went away there'd be a big problem. The job is labour intensive, but one of them is much less important than the other.
Understood. Time to make a living by butchering my own kind and turning them into sausages.
Only if they're rich. There's nothing criminal about grinding the ultra-rich into sausages.
Warning: this is not literally true.
By the time you've worked out avoiding repercussions from the ultra-rich for grinding up their friends, legality has lost any influence over your actions.
Can't be criminalized if you are never caught. Oh, and those repercussions from the ultra-rich would probably come with having the whole story burried. Can't have the poors getting ideas.
This is kind of bullshit because any job that doesn’t immediately come to mind and can be used as a counter example can be hand waved away with “but I can picture it.”
Edit: someone in this thread used the example of a “a piggy sitting all day at a PC.” I didn’t realize we were cool with gatekeeping jobs. That’s not cool if you ask me.
you might be a lot less stressed if you stopped caring so much about what randos on the internet think about your job
The weird thing is, my mind also immediately went for "pig in front of computer", but until this comment chain I didn't even notice the picture in my head defaulted to the pig stressed out and surrounded by empty cups of coffee.
Shit.
I can imagine a pig collecting the labour value of the proletariat through his investments in capital and living it up on a yacht with a bunch of cocaine and piggy hookers
The converse is not necessarily true. I can imagine a pig sitting at a desk writing code, but that doesn't mean my job isn't bullshit.
Came here to mention Peppa Pig's Dad. Could swear he and his job are portrayed as a detriment to society.
I reckon a lot of people would consider my job to not be a real job, but I can imagine a pig sitting in front of a computer just fine.
Quick scan if the comments and not seeing anything about how this pig likely just chopped up either friends or family to turn into bologna for a worm driving an apple.
Issue #2 of Beneath The Trees Where Nobody Sees (recent comic, basically Dexter meets Richard Scarry, really good!) had a cover that played off of this lol.
I get where you're coming from, and I would love to see a Richard Scary take on "AI Prompt Engineer" or "Influencer".
I can imagine a pig in a children's book sitting in front of a computer with several empty coffee cups surrounding it. That covers about 40% of the job market these days.
That pig is way to cheerful at doing it's mind numbing corporate job. But then again it's less bad than the sociopath butcher pig.
I brought this up the last time this image was posted but it makes the most sense with him being a pig.
Pigs will eat anything. Even other pigs. They don't care.
Hard disagree. I can easily imagine anyone in this scenario including some Instagram influencer peddling crypto schemes as this pig.