Ted Rall for May 10, 2019

There’s a message here, I think, but I’m not getting it.

I believe it’s about social media which is far too often anti-social. A conspiracy theorist might surmise that the powers-that-be like a public that can’t think more analytically than soundbites. I have no time for that bullpoop. I have a life.

A classic!

Having once had a sub-sub-contract to work for the “Director of Innovation and Improvisation” at a large media firm, I get it.

Only in a nation where “The Kardashians” dominate the news stream could “influencer” be a paying job.

“The Girl Who Was Plugged In.” 1974-75, or so. James Tiptree, Jr. (pen-name of Alice Sheldon)

fusilier, SMOF, jg. (ret.)

James 2:24

Pretty accurate cartoon.. and each “progression” decimated the previous one.. and it looks like that trend is continuing.

If we keep going the way we’re going, the next step will be hunter-gatherer.

It’s like the evolution of humans, only in reverse.

Get ready for a new one: Robotics Technician replacing Restaurant Dishwasher and just about every other minimum wage/starter job. Pretty soon its going to be all “Robotics Technicians” and managers.

It’s supposed to be Marxism. Each one does a job, physical labor, except the ‘influencer’ who lives off of other’s labor. Of course Rall left out the part that the ‘influencer’, usually a salesperson of some sort, was needed in order to turn the product of that labor into something available to everyone, improving life. The hunter-gatherer can sell his crop/livestock so as to buy needed items for his family from the artisan who then can buy what he needs to raise his family from the factory worker, who builds products that the office worker bills invoices for, to pay the tech worker who wiggled into this string, arguably, by making all their jobs easier. That’s marketing.

Republican dirty tricks operatives like Roger Stone who complained he only made $47,000 a month.

Influencer work requires a complete lack of dignity in order to be successful.

That influencer is so mad about those other lazy jerks taking so much of the profits.

Too bad some people can’t get their “influencing” internally

That is the weirdest factory worker I’ve ever seen.

I think you forgot one group, Ted, cartoonists distracted by too many conspiracy theories.

There are six people, find the one who is not contributing anything useful for the society.