u cld write a whole thesis abt this xkcd & how the only workers personified here r the upper class college degreed tech & management workers & not the third world workers facing unsafe grueling conditions working in mining or even manufacturing..... the wood source described as a "legal fight"
he's also greatly overestimating how much design work actually goes into most products like that
not leaving that in the tags
No, you don't understand. It was 2016. The explainxkcd wiki has a discussion with examples of meetings and debates exactly like Randall describes.
There is specific Californian OSHA Standart that comic alludes to.
Some people said he underestimates time spent.
It is a 2016 comics. He was right.
Aren't assembley lines intended to minimize the amount of work physically done during assembly? To the point that the actual assembley takes minutes? They'd take a lot more time in design and meetings.
The hubris of expecting a one-panel cartoon to portray EVERY point-of-view is laughable and demonstrates a lack of a sense of humor in the commenters. If you don’t get the joke, scroll on.
