this post was submitted on 30 Mar 2026
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Hello fellow Far Side fans!
About this community and how I post the comic strip… Many moons ago, I would ask my Dad to save the newspaper for me everyday so I could read my favorite comic strips and one of those was The Far Side. These days of course you find just about anything online including www.thefarside.com where they post several comics a day and I repost them here. Just to note, the date you see in my posts is not the initial release date, but the date they were posted on the website.
The Far Side is a single-panel comic created by Gary Larson and syndicated by Chronicle Features and then Universal Press Syndicate, which ran from December 31, 1979, to January 1, 1995 (when Larson retired as a cartoonist). Its surrealistic humor is often based on uncomfortable social situations, improbable events, an anthropomorphic view of the world, logical fallacies, impending bizarre disasters, (often twisted) references to proverbs, or the search for meaning in life… Read more: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Far_Side
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Ok but in fairness the ads in the comic imply they want the best of the best, and in modern times those players do actually make a decent living and even get cars etc.
How many millions/billions cook food vs how many are professional chefs? How many draw but are famous artists? How many play football but become a professional well paid athlete?
Technically your example applies to basically anything any human does.
And you know, those people are few even as states pour untold billions of subsidies to try and rescue naturally waning industries, subsidize sports in the pursuit of patriotic legacies, while the teams are owned by oligarchs who launder their money with untold billions in bogus art evaluations.
Did I say otherwise? I made a comment regarding this specific remark:
Insisting that 'plenty' was certainly not that highway to success I think too many people believe it is, based on watching a few successful streamers or influencers... Or, at least that it is not what those two parents in the comics are imagining it is and what quite a few of those youngsters I can hear talk around me about their own future imagine. Which is something that should be a lot more worrying to us, the adults (kids are more than welcome to entertain dreams).
Once again, I don't say otherwise. But now tell me this: how many of those amateur cooks (or whatever) do you think imagine they will become chefs (or whatever) just because they like to cook (or whatever)? Not many... which is about right: not many will become pro.
BTW, as an amateur painter and artist I never imagined becoming a pro. I could not care less about making a business out of something I simply enjoy doing ;)