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I would go back and reread the comic. It’s pretty explicitly stated!
I also don’t see what’s wrong with intelligent people doing advanced VFX for Hollywood movies. Not everything in life needs to be purely about utility, or at least about what we consider useful as a society.
I don't see what's wrong with intelligent people carrying wood in the desolate landscape of a web comic.
But I think the message is that brilliant people with the opportunity to do amazing things are denied the opportunity due to poverty and subsistence living. Raising people out of poverty has a dramatic knock-on benefit for us all. It isn't just some moralistic duty.
I get that but if we’re talking about creative/“intelligent” people, then there’s a difference between doing advanced VFX work (which is an art form at the end of the day) and manual labor to survive. Isn’t that kind of the whole point? It’s not that carrying wood is wrong, it’s obviously not. But the whole thrust of the comic is they would probably rather be doing something (and we want them to as well) else and would want access to an education because they are the next Einstein. But it’s a little harder case to make when somebody is practicing an artistic craft.
I bet the people working on effects for Black Panther - since marvel was the example - don’t regret their work and wouldn’t liken it to schlepping wood on foot all day to make ends meet while they never get to practice their craft.