Cartoons Tagged "employment"



Employment Contract


cartoon, drawing, comic, mokokoma, work, employment, contract, kill, killer, dreams, employee, worker

A piece of paper that dictates where wo/men spend the first eight-hours of their day.
More often than not, more often than we hate to admit, when we kill our being unemployed, our dreams too die. For most, it’s either you have a dream, or, you have a boss. It’s either you are a dreamer, or, you are an employee. Seldom both.

(Cartoons with the book cover are extracts from The Confessions of a Misfit.)



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— March 29, 2012.


Made in School


cartoon, drawing, comic, mokokoma, school, education, factory, employees, manufacture, building, work, employment

School doesn’t really develop the unschooled’s minds to their optimal thinking level. Far from it. School is merely in the business of satisfying the industries’ demands.

School is loyal to businesses, not humankind. Meanwhile, businesses, arguably the majority, do not exist to serve humankind (i.e., solve social problems) — most worsen, and, at times, create, social problems (sexism, pollution, consumerism, etc.).
For not every single thing that is manufactured and sold — is manufactured and sold — in the best interest of the sold to.

School evolved from being a means to man’s realizing of an end (i.e., whatever the purpose of life is) into a profit-seeking institution that manufactures employees and consumers. Creatures often awarded for selling their people things they don’t need.

(“Education” breeds more followers than leaders. More “rememberers” than thinkers. Indoctrinated human beings who are better at remembering than thinking.)



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— March 23, 2012.


Prisoners Who Sleep at Home


cartoon, drawing, comic, employment, work, employee, employer, prison, cell, sentence, jail, slavery, slave

There is, I believe, a difference between work, and, a job.

For Man to eat, he needs to work. Be it plowing, reaping, or, cooking. However, employment is a by-product of a system that men who can before us invented.

For countless decades, those who can before us slept on a full tummy, without having to have a creature called a boss.

If you are given the “freedom” to go wherever, but that “wherever” is limited to a certain territory, then that freedom is nothing but an illusion.

Furthermore, a slave that had a choice over who its master is, is still a slave.

To borrow words from Nassim Nicholas Taleb, “Karl Marx, a visionary, figured out that you can control a slave much better by convincing him he is an employee.”

Another assertion by Nassim, that I am of the same opinion with, “Those who do not think that employment is systemic slavery are either blind or employed.”

For an employee is free to go wherever; but he must be in a cubicle by 8 a.m.

(Cartoons with the book cover are extracts from The Confessions of a Misfit.)

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— March 16, 2012.


Reasons We Educate


cartoon, drawing, comic, hat, graduation, school, education, degree, diploma, interview, employer, employee


This cartoon brought to mind my take on the so-called “formal” education.


Education has its advantages. That I agree with. What I have a problem with is how self-taught beings are regarded as inferior; before their art is even given a glimpse.


I think we are way too obsessed with where and how knowledge is acquired that we fail to concentrate on what’s really important, the knowledge. The skill is the differentiator between the skilled and the unskilled, not where the skills were obtained.


(Like I said before, I think we are blinded by a tiny illusion, an eleven-letter word sold by educational institutions, “credibility.”)




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— February 27, 2012.


Employment and Happiness


cartoon, drawing, comic, the confessions of a misfit, book, calendar, employer, employees, happiness, friday, monday

One is happy when a week starts: for that presents an opportunity for him to get his employees to help him to get closer to his dream. The other is happy when the week ends: for that presents an opportunity for him to rest. And to a few, an opportunity to work on their dream. A dream that will hopefully free them from their job.

More often that not, when one sees an employee smile: it is either it’s Friday, or, it is payday. The other days’ smiling appears to be reserved for their masters.

(Cartoons with the book cover are extracts from The Confessions of a Misfit.)

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— February 24, 2012.


The Purpose of Life


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(If the purpose of life is to determine who goes to “heaven” — and who doesn’t — then life is dumb.)

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— February 14, 2012.


The Anatomy of a Salary


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If your job is to, say, wash cars, then, your employer probably estimated how many cars you will wash, on average, in a month. Multiply that by the most that he is willing to pay you per car — and then, you should have yourself your salary.

(  … but what if your job entails coming up with ideas?)

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— February 12, 2012.


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