You must log in or register to comment.
i can see it: The piggy that sat all day on the PC
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?
PorkHub
PragerU is a bane on our society
Art is bullshit now?
Any non-pig art.
So as a film editor…my job is bullshit?
Well, if you can’t imagine a pig wearing clothes doing your job, then yes!
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.
Plenty of us look a lot like that, though
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.
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
All animals are equal but some are more equal than others
Also isn’t that pig making products out of other pigs?
Idk why but I’m busting up over piggy hookers
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.
Just turn off the screen, you’ll see one. /s
Ha, nice try, I don’t work for the police
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.
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.
As an artist I cannot think of a single thing this disqualifies. Including sex work.
I get where you’re coming from, and I would love to see a Richard Scary take on “AI Prompt Engineer” or “Influencer”.
What page was the pig doing the sexual engineering on? Asking for a friend
Oh no I don’t think a piggy can hold a pipetter
Your lack of imagination has no bearing on the validity of my, or anyone else’s job.
Pig Hannibal Lecter
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.
Here you go
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.
The pig is cheerful because it’s shitposting on Lemmy instead of working.
Was gonna say- Peppa Pig anyone?
Meaning all jobs are valuable or he has no imagination?
Hard disagree. I can easily imagine anyone in this scenario including some Instagram influencer peddling crypto schemes as this pig.
Fuck outta here with this shit.
So… Who’s for dinner?
