Due to inflation 10-20M is worth about 60 cents today.
That much ?
I know it’s just a comic strip but I don’t think that’s the thought pattern behind trash accumulation.
Real thought process for this when it’s ADHD:
“I’ll take care of this when I get up.”
Forgets to take care of it when he gets up
Hoarders.
You don’t typically hoard trash, you hoard stuff. Trash accumulation is more from depression.
But it’s a joke
It’s funny, but more realistically, a hoarder at this mangetude usually has strong emotions tied to items. It can be that it reminds them of something or someone, or they feel a huge amount of guilt at even the thought of tossing it. Could be guilt of climate change or guilt of the item’s purpose being wasted. It could be as simple of being afraid of being in a situation and needing one again.
Even the hoarders that explain their horde by way of earning money (this will be worth something) is just using it as an excuse to horde. They tend to like the idea of what it could be and enjoy imagining the project, but don’t actually enjoy the action of doing the project. The connection to hoarding items is hoarding the imagination of it, and having the physical thing makes that imagining much more real to them.
Still, it’s a funny comic.
There’s a really good YT channel called Midwest Magic Cleaning, who cleans hoarder houses for free. He talks a lot about the “potential” of an item vs it’s current value.
Hoarders will keep an item because it has potential, but the item will never “actualize” that potential. Thus the current “value” of the item is just taking up space
He also talks a lot about the emotional attachment, as well as the actual panic disorders that can be triggered by someone attempting a cleanup.
The comic is funny, but it’s not really a good representation
Pretty uncool to be making fun of people with a mental disorder.
The person depicted in this comic is clearly a hoarder and is clearly drawn to be visually reminiscent of a Neanderthal or another less evolved variant.
Hoarders need help and treatment, not made fun of.
…But I guess punching down is how people have fun.Homie that’s just the art style, look at how fucked up the professor dude looks. No one is saying hoarders are Neanderthals but you
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Homo habilus, in case you were wondering
I did not for even a second believe the artist was looking to depict a realistic view of a particular species, just the standard cultural view of early humans (ie so easy a caveman could do it). So no, I was not wondering.
I reject your comment.
It’s clearly the intent.
You have nothing to base that off of because you aren’t the artist are you? All I see is an artist who has good varied character design, a character with admittedly a unibrow, and two people on the internet getting offended over something nonsensical.
So a normal Monday
do i have to be the artist to interpret art?
^ This person does not understand how critique works. Sad shame.
You don’t need to be the artist to form an understanding of the artwork, use context clues to ascertain meaning, or intuit subtle ideas. It’s visual art after all, not prose.
Further, identifying an ugly quality which is presented plainly doesn’t mean we’re offended by it, it means we’re observed something the creator showed to us. …or do you automatically assume anything you don’t like is bad? I probably should have asked but, are you very young?
You clearly don’t have an understanding of the artwork, you’ve made an assumption of a depiction based off of a stylistic choice. E.g (monobrow equals neanderthal) and did you really just ask that while automatically assuming I’m very young?
That would be like me assuming since you immediately resorted to attempting to attack me as a person you have low intelligence and are a bad debater, but I would never assume something so crass.
I didn’t make that assumption… you’re confusing me with Mac who made comment which started the discussion. Adults with fully developed brains tend to be a little better at storing and recalling information like this, just FYI. Stay in school.
Nice comeback, really burned me
You nailed it.
Everyone in this thread is absolutely roasting the artist right now by saying her self-insert looks like a Neaderthal and spreads a bad image of mental illness.
people projecting their personal narrative onto a comic that couldn’t care less about their personal feelings on the matter.
what’s even funnier than the joke is that these people are actually getting triggered by how much an inanimate comic rejects their personal struggles with mental illness that their illness spills over and out of control.
it’s a joke. chuckle and move on. your life will be so much better if you learn how to ignore the noise and move forward.
Welcome to Lemmy. You’ll love it here.
Every joke is scrupulously analyzed for the slightest tinge of character outside of the norm of a leftist echo chamber.
I’m a leftist as well, fellows, but do we really need to take offense to literally everything?
It’s a comic, from the two measuring cups guy from when Biden won. He can’t draw that well, but he’s still cool. I’m sure he didn’t mean to hurt your widdle feelings too bad.
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Not how mental illness works, but go off, I guess… 🙄
(but don’t really, this kind of bullshit only deepens stigma and misunderstanding of how it does work, and makes those who suffer feel even more alienated)
how does it work? ive only ever seen the really bad scenarios on those sensationalist tv shows and i think thats what most people are exposed to tbh.