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diego_moitatoday at 3:10 PM0 repliesview on HN

Adams and his comics were childish, formulaic and repetitive.

Yeah, bosses are stupid and incompetent, I get it. But, guess what? Most people are stupid, one way or the other. Adams wasn't better than PHB, viz. the ridiculous polemics he got himself into.

And Dilbert was a crying baby incapable of taking action against his own misery.

Now, if you think it is so horrible to live under an incompetent boss, try being a peasant in a 3rd world country, living under a dictatorship, being a Palestinian in Israel, being an immigrant chased by ICE or being a minority in a democracy still beset by enormous inequalities; I'd suggest being a black and poor woman in Latin America. If you can't, read any book by Carolina Maria de Jesus[1]. It does give you a whole new perspective in "life sucks".

This dumb comics was "first world problems" all the way down.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carolina_Maria_de_Jesus