 | JonTheMan (29)
12/16/2003 |  I'd like to think I get Dilbert and when I do, I find it a spirited intellectual take on the ludicrous nature of corporate bearaucracy. However with that said, Scott Adams himself is more then a little bit of a hypocrite. While he claims to be standing up for the little guy, the common man, the workers for these companies, he personally revels in the recent economic reccesssion declaring let the bad times roll knowing that more disgruntled workers will buy his books. Also his blatantly anti-liberal opinions emerge in The Dilbert future in which he says to those wishing for shorter prison terms I'm going to explain this very slowly..., I find this very patronizing and biased, though I don't argue with his right to say it I just don't think it's very apt for a comedian. It's also ironic that this champion of the people has the gall to say something as simplistic as the beauty of capitalism is that it only discriminates against the lazy and stupid, tell that to a single mother who works 11 hours a day in a minimum wage job who lives in a broken down flat in the ghetto, jackass. I've no problem with his personal ideologies, I just find the way he expresses them so... insulting. I love Dilbert and would quickly reccomend it to anyone but when reading his books I'm quite often laughing through gritted teeth.
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