Frazz by Jef Mallett for September 06, 2022

In the US, “first story” is the ground floor. In England, it’s the floor above that.

I never understood why people have trouble with story problems. I see what the jokes are, and it appears that they simply don’t understand how to abstract a math problem from the story. I’ve never had any trouble with that. Does that make me weird?

You go back in school so that your stay-at-home parent won’t have to work.

Educated so you can choose the kind of labor.

Hard-working laborers need education too to find out things like why a hard-working laborer can’t make a living wage and has no health care.

Skilled workers are in demand.

There’s nothing wrong with being a hard-working laborer.

Education is important not matter what you end up doing.

Working hard, working smart, working to serve, working to make the world a better place are all good things.

We’ll-rounded, educated workers for jobs that didn’t even exist when we were kids. Schools can barely keep up. One of the better outcomes of the pandemic is the tech that schools invested in to provide remote learning.

Ahhh! Word problems. Read, understand, select symbols, translate words into equation(s), solve! That’ll get your whole brain going.

Post-COVID response, working workers are in demand.

Yes, poor people work harder than rich people and one reason you WANT to be rich is so you DON’T have to work hard. Remember that, kid, because rich people will be telling you differently for the rest of your life in order to get you to work for them.

Say “Union – yes!”

OMG….the denigration of labor, out of the strip that pretends to Honor Labor? Skilled Labor, denigrated to keep wages low….too bad….you’re fired.

Gotta have skilled labor – otherwise who would pay off the loans that the will-never-get-a-job-in-a-million-years philosophy majors have to default on?

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Study hard and you too can become a custodian, like Frazz.

Why perpetuate the lie that only physical labor counts as “work”? To take the lowest-common-denominator, purely crass view of it, anything you can get paid for doing counts as work. And even that doesn’t take into account homemakers and volunteers.

Got my education to be a hardworking laborer. Figuring stuff out and making the right things happen does count as “work” you know. I go home tired every day. Worked yesterday, by the way.

Get an education so he doesn’t have to work hard? I guess he hasn’t heard of doctors, lawyers, firefighters, police, etc., etc.

25+ years into my legal career I wish I’d become a carpenter.

Be thankful the child labor laws allow you to be in the classroom getting an education.