Many of these “business geniuses” do the following:
- buy struggling business cheap
- reduce expenses (biggest expense is always salaries, so fire a lot of people)
- on paper, the business is making money (while the rest of the staff frantically try to survive without enough manpower and with a lot of loss on knowledge and experience)
- sell doomed business before it collapses (remember: on paper, it looks healthy)
It’s a Bigger Idiot Scam: buy company, make it look valuable, sell it for profit to a bigger idiot, until someone is left holding the bag.
Except that someone can usually still gut it, sell its assets and push the cost on those that weren’t lucky enough to land a new job ahead of time.
Yep. Survived such an idiot.
Did the idiot make more money from that endeavour than you?
(Bcs unfortunately both can be true, financial gain is not exactly related to economic success or sense.)
Does a bear shit in the woods?
I love that the guy’s tattoos change constantly:
- snake on right arm
- snake moves to the left arm
- apple gets bite taken from it as snake is now a real creature
So many little details in this comic!
Thing.
Homer Simpson.
Professor Bunsen.
Brain from Pinky and the Brain.
Deathbed regret is not working more! Text too small to read! Fighting demonic forces!
There’s also a body hiding in the floor in the first panel
What… The heck… Is going on in that factory!? What’s with all the random changes and references?
Seems like they used the cracked magazine approach.
People were fighting demonic forces before the end of their turn, what obviously disrupt the factory’s work.
This is how private equity MBAs have ruined everything.
So many oligarchs and wannabe oligarchs to choose from…
I know about the other hidden characters in the comic, but what is this guy?
That, my friend, is a weezotski.
URGENT: ALWAYS COMPLETE YOUR SHIFT AND CLEAN YOUR AREA BEFORE FIGHTING DEMONIC FORCES
Classic plot of most of the Reddit revenge and Youtube channels.
This looks and feels like AI slop
When did AI ever include a bunch of accurate joke details, like the 3 first panels have?
Not all slop is AI slop. You’re jumping at shadows, calm down.
Well I am certainly in the minority here.
Certainly a minority, but not quite alone. I see comments like yours a LOT.
Personally I’d prefer seeing people call out slop because it’s shitty, not based on how it was made, but with that I guess I’m the minority ¯\_(ツ)_¯
It’s fine if you considered the comic terrible, the issue is calling it AI Generated as it just not factually true
That’s exactly what I’m saying. Slop doesn’t have to be AI.
Maybe, but you phrased it as “AI Slop” IE you are saying it is AI generated
No, Klear didn’t, that was a different user.
You got one arm right, but forgot the other!
Possibly but it’s also because you’re not willing to admit you may be wrong with your view and adjusting accordingly. Instead you’re digging in further.
Stop bad-jacketing. Unless you have real evidence that it’s AI, you’re just hurting real artists.
Then you’ve been conditioned to think that everything is AI slop. Learn to spot the signs of AI better.
Because there are random hands and faces all over the place, random cartoon characters and every frame had no connection with the next frame except the to foreground characters?
This thing is chaos.
But a very different type of chaos than what an AI produces. If anything, this is the most “non-AI” comic I’ve ever seen.
For me it feels like the author had succeeded in making it non-AI better than in making it a comic
And I am loving it:-)
What do you mean?
I think they are suggesting it does not appear to be drawn by a human.
The art style looks AI generated and flow of the comic feels AI generated.
Im with you that the style looks pretty AI, and at first glance I assumed so too, but the little jokes and characters dotted around brought me back.
Current AI would mess up at least some of the Easter egg text added in the comic (if it would add it at all).
when claiming something is generated by AI, you should probably look at the image for more than 5 seconds and probably know what an AI generated comic looks like
claiming something made by a real person is AI generated can be hurtful
AI is pretty consistently bad at small background text and expressive hand gestures and this image has quite a lot of both.
The box in the first panel is a good example. The text “caution: irrelevant prop” written on it becomes clearer when you zoom in; for things like that, AI usually makes sort of a word shaped tangle that turns to mush when you zoom in.
This is the most AI looking comic I’ve ever seen that appears hand drawn. Maybe they traced it and fixed the problems.
The artist is well established, and he’s been making these in a consistent style since long before the slop era.
Thomas Pickety lays out the mechanics of this transference in Capitalism In The Twenty-First Century.
He establishes a comparison between the domestic rate of economic growth (typically measured in GDP) relative to the average return on investment (typically measured by bond rates or annualized stock market asset inflation). He finds that when GDP < ROI, wealth aggregates into the hands of a small pool of elites. Meanwhile, when GDP > ROI, wealth diffuses to the general public (the so-called Trickle Down Economics promised by Reagan).
These leveraged buyouts are only possible when private lenders can generate a compounding return in fictitious assets that outpaces a return investing in material capital and labor improvements. And the compounding return is, at its heart, a consequence of unpaid wages, bad debt, and unaccounted depreciation.
Picketty concludes that the most straightforward remedy to rebalancing GDP and ROI is to tax capital gains. This effectively forces down the ROI, while redirecting cash flow to public investments that boost GDP without triggering an inflationary spiral.
But what he can’t answer is how to address the social dynamic that allows taxes to fall and predatory business practices to accumulate. Media manipulation, imperialist plundering, and the exploitation of domestic lower social castes can’t be solved with tax policy. Who actually stops the Business Genius from wrecking the factory? What are the real material functions of the economy being controlled? And how do a handful of individuals successfully rent-seek from them without triggering a public revolt?
A wild Homer Simpson appears
I bought the company and I will short the stock.
I live how the title is misspelled.
Edit: My own typo above is unintentional, but too funny to fix.
“THIS TINY TEXT IS WAY TOO SMALL TO BE READ, SORRY!”
