My Mom used to buy me comics as a kid, and I've read some of the modern Neil Gaiman comics, but they never caught my interest.
Why? Because I'm a reader.
Comics NEVER take more then 10 minutes to read, and then you're done. That's 10 minutes of entertainment. Two packs of M&M's would keep a literate person entertained for longer.
The article says that American comics aren't popular because they're too difficult to read. BS. American comics assume an amount of illiteracy. Why else would they make a story that's over in 20 pages? This is also part of the reason that people think that American comics are for kids. If a story is longer and takes more effort to read (like the Harry Potter books) then suddenly they're not for kids anymore, and its transitioned into an adult genre.
If comic publishers made black and white comics that were significantly longer and more involved people would respect them more.
So John Q snaps and takes the hospital hostage. Not because he is poor or because his son is sick, but because he believes that he should be entitled to free healthcare when it possible to save his son.
How far have we fallen? If a 'national emergency' was declared and the government needed people to setup a computer system to save soldiers lives (yes it wouldn't happen, but just go with me here), would you do it? Some might volunteer, and that'd be noble, but nobody should be required to work for a fraction of what their services are worth.
IANADoctor, but heart transplants seem hard to do, and those who get them don't often survive for long (see that guy in Texas who just died of an artificial one). Knowledge of this area is filled with holes, and I see no reason why a heart transplant wouldn't legitimately cost $250,000.
Yes the kid is sick, and it's a cute kid, who we'd all want to help if we saw him on the street. But charity, while noble, should always be optional. Our health care system seems to have forgotten that long ago if John Q is the kind of guy they expect sympathy for.
I think this article might have been slightly offbase when it stated that men in particular are overworked due in part to household chores.
It seems to me that women generally are STILL expected to do most of the housework and kid raising, even if they are coders and make considerably more than their spouses.
If anything, WOMEN are more overworked now than they are before.
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My Mom used to buy me comics as a kid, and I've read some of the modern Neil Gaiman comics, but they never caught my interest.
Why? Because I'm a reader.
Comics NEVER take more then 10 minutes to read, and then you're done. That's 10 minutes of entertainment. Two packs of M&M's would keep a literate person entertained for longer.
The article says that American comics aren't popular because they're too difficult to read. BS. American comics assume an amount of illiteracy. Why else would they make a story that's over in 20 pages? This is also part of the reason that people think that American comics are for kids. If a story is longer and takes more effort to read (like the Harry Potter books) then suddenly they're not for kids anymore, and its transitioned into an adult genre.
If comic publishers made black and white comics that were significantly longer and more involved people would respect them more.
So John Q snaps and takes the hospital hostage. Not because he is poor or because his son is sick, but because he believes that he should be entitled to free healthcare when it possible to save his son.
How far have we fallen? If a 'national emergency' was declared and the government needed people to setup a computer system to save soldiers lives (yes it wouldn't happen, but just go with me here), would you do it? Some might volunteer, and that'd be noble, but nobody should be required to work for a fraction of what their services are worth.
IANADoctor, but heart transplants seem hard to do, and those who get them don't often survive for long (see that guy in Texas who just died of an artificial one). Knowledge of this area is filled with holes, and I see no reason why a heart transplant wouldn't legitimately cost $250,000.
Yes the kid is sick, and it's a cute kid, who we'd all want to help if we saw him on the street. But charity, while noble, should always be optional. Our health care system seems to have forgotten that long ago if John Q is the kind of guy they expect sympathy for.
Nice theory (one I've told myself before) but how exactly is a software company to know what your feelings are about their software?
I think this article might have been slightly offbase when it stated that men in particular are overworked due in part to household chores.
It seems to me that women generally are STILL expected to do most of the housework and kid raising, even if they are coders and make considerably more than their spouses.
If anything, WOMEN are more overworked now than they are before.