On the bright side with remote work you can work without pants.
this post was submitted on 29 Aug 2025
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Look closer, he isn't working from home. That's a cubicle
joke's on you, i work from home and a t-shirt is all i need ^^
oh bother
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I almost forgot to put on a proper shirt one time (I was wearing a tank top) and realized as soon as I turned on my camera. Fortunately I was able to duck quickly and turn it off.
It's about authoritarianism! You're busy wondering if he's wearing pants, but the point is he is not doing whatever he wants. His dad programmed him to do what he's told.
Schroedinger's pants. He may be wearing them or not, depending on your interpretation.
He ain't wearing no pants
Neither do I
Here's a conundrum: what if most people wanted to organize the society in a certain way? They are doing what they want. Are they not allowed to do that? People who make complaints about not being able to do what they want rarely seem keen to grant others the same privilege.
Also, the guy in the comic is doing exactly what he wants - it's just that he probably wanted a job more than he wanted to not wear pants. The issue isn't not being able to do what one wants, the issue is that people don't want any inconvenience for doing so. The more you learn to tolerate inconvenience, the more free you are to do whatever you want. But you can't have your cake and eat it too.
He only "wants" a job because of the oppressive systemic forces that dictate the society he lives in necessitating him having one or else his access to material necessities be threatened.
The guy is not doing what he wants. He is being forced into doing what he is told to do (work a meaningless office job) because he was conditioned in childhood to do just that by his parents instead of doing what he wants.
How do you know he's wearing pants in the last panel?
Can someone decode what the hell this person is even trying to say.
"Be a good sheep and fall in line, stop daring to live in a free-er world, accept your place as a peasant and be content with what you have."
We live in a society and you can't have it all your way.
Social norms are necessary when people come together.
Someones interest in not wearing pants needs to be weighted against other peoples interest not wanting to see their hairy balls halfway falling out of their slip. Imagine if that coworker whose "jokes" are just short of sexual harassment now gets to run around naked and rub his balls on your desk and you are not allowed to tell him to fuck off, because that would violate his "no-pants"-rights.
Yea fuck that authoritarian mentality.
The only thing that needs to be weighted is when someone's actions directly affect others around them, not against the whims of others who need to learn how to cope with people existing differently than they would. Not wearing pants does nothing to no one. Your desire to not see nudity is your problem and your problem alone, and it is not a valid excuse to dictate the actions of others when those actions are harmless.
Some social "norms" are ass-backwards, based in toxic, archaic ideology only meant to oppress, and need to be dismantled to improve and create a free-er society.
That's a nice hyperbolic hypothetical that exaggerates the issue, making it seem more than it actually is. No one is saying people should be able to go around "rubbing their balls all over" your personal property. That's still harassment. Inappropriate and sexual "jokes" directed at another individual is still harassment. You would be completely within your right to tell them to quit fucking with you, because they are directly affecting you by doing so.
Being able to just exist while not wearing pants because it is how someone would be most comfortable, regardless of how others around them feel about nudity themselves, is not harassment, and they should be well within their right to do so, others around them need to learn to cope.
What about non-hairy balls 👀
It’s like the mullet of remote work: business on top (suit), party on the bottom (underwear or sweatpants if it’s cold).
Edit: I overlooked that he’s in a cubicle but my point still stands (sits?).
Yeah, I liked this one. The first layer is "haha, he's not wearing pants, rad lad", then the next layer hits; "oh shit, he is wearing pants, and he's definitely not doing what he wants..".
And yet, this young dude will most likely also procreate. What a great concept for existing. Working for someone else's good life most of your own life. Dressing, behaving, speaking, thinking in conformity and uniformity with only a slight tolerance for deviation. And then also procreating and spreading the disease to their children. True love 😁
Are you thinking what I am thinking?