Failure vs Success (Life in Hell, 1982)

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red_tomato@lemmy.world · 99 pts · 7d (2 replies)

Failure: Everyone gets fired (while the CEO gets a big bonus)

Success: The CEO gets a big bonus (while everyone gets fired)

gAlienLifeform@lemmy.world · 14 pts · 7d (1 reply)

A true and important point, but the message I takeaway from this one is

Failure: you will wonder if there was more you could have done

Success: you will wonder if there was more you could have done

yermaw@sh.itjust.works · 9 pts · 7d

Success : you spend your whole time panicking that people will find out that you have no idea how you actually succeeded and if they realise you're a fraud its all over

nailingjello@piefed.zip · 56 pts · 7d (1 reply)

Drawn by Matt Groening, creator of The Simpson's, Futurama, and more. Well before he did any of those.

Frozengyro@lemmy.world · 12 pts · 7d

I wonder if he still feels the same today.

nullspace@lemmy.world · 37 pts · 7d

He drew that shit twice. No copy/pasting panels there.

rockSlayer@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 20 pts · 7d

The pens got thinner, obviously to juice the stock by another 4 cents

driving_crooner@lemmy.eco.br · 11 pts · 7d (1 reply)

Whats that 1040 form means?

originalucifer@moist.catsweat.com · 19 pts · 7d

u.s. tax form

Sly2@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 7d (2 replies)

Uuuh life in hell! More please! 🤗

maccentric@sh.itjust.works · 21 pts · 7d (1 reply)

Sly2@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 7d

You can see the Bart prototype in this one, Matt Groening is just great.

originalucifer@moist.catsweat.com · 8 pts · 7d (5 replies)

i fucking love this book. its the best thing hes ever done

SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca · 3 pts · 7d (4 replies)

Life in Hell was a comic strip in the 80s featured in most campus newspapers.

maccentric@sh.itjust.works · 10 pts · 7d (3 replies)

maccentric@sh.itjust.works · 5 pts · 7d (2 replies)

bandwidthcrisis@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 7d
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tetris11@feddit.uk · 1 pts · 6d

1990: $15.95

About $41 today

Swaus01@piefed.social · -2 pts · 7d (3 replies)

Does this comic suggest that failure and success depends on where we take data points? I.e the graph on left hand side might be a small part of the one on right hand side

chuckleslord@lemmy.world · 20 pts · 7d (2 replies)

That success or failure means nothing to those who stand to gain nothing from either state

ripcord@lemmy.world · 12 pts · 7d

Or that Matt was just really depressed

Swaus01@piefed.social · 1 pts · 7d

Profound