His critque was always shallow though. He would point out that Dilbert's manager was short-term oriented, and was willing to make insane concessions to get the project delivered, but he never asked why, or ever tried to answer that question.

If you don't have theoretical framework that you are "critiquing" from, then while you can point out absurdities, that is all you can do. There is no understanding gained, no deeper meaning discovered. This means that if you become successful, you can't help but assume that you possess some kind of hidden knowledge that others who are not as smart as you, just don't possess. Then you become the point haired boss you were satirizing without the self-awareness that dilbert has within his comics.

What's the context of this? Is that a lot compared to "non-mass shooting deaths?" Is it comparable to number of people struck by lightning? Number of people dying of preventable diseases? It's a really niche thing to laser focus on and the visualization doesn't provide any context.

Meanwhile one minute of a car running at idle is around 150liter's of 2.5pm pollution. So it really seems like fireworks aren't even worth considering.