I am an engineer and have this same thought about the speed of work when drawings were done by hand and not on the computer and that was way less than 200 years ago.
The older I get the more I understand Calvin's dad. And that's cliche to say but like all of him, right down to the sadistic glee at sabotaging corporate intentions and the inexplicable bouts of manic rage at how terribly and obnoxiously we've built society
I understand him a lot more now than when I was first reading the comic as a kid, definitely. He still has that boomer “suffering instills character” mentality I hate but no one’s perfect, and I suspect if Calvin were my child I’d have a different outlook.
Honestly even that I feel less brittle towards. When teenagers get really haughty and puff up and tell me about how scared and stressed they are, I really do just want to drop the condescending little nugget.
