Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal by Zach Weinersmith for June 25, 2015
June 24, 2015
June 26, 2015
Transcript:
Mom! I want money to buy tokens to get tickets to trade for a fun size chocolate bar. With the money you spend on tokens, I could buy you 10 pounds of chocolate. Yes, but you wouldn't directly buy me any chocolate. However, you will give me money to buy tokens to win tickets to purchase chocolate. From my perspective it still a net gain. You're the one being economically irrational. You're right. That's so smart. Here's money for being so smart. Soon... She sits quietly for six hours? What'd you give her? 3 ounces of chocolate. Not-exactly-a-slot-machine-o-rama!
Brass Orchid Premium Member almost 9 years ago
We can’t appropriate money directly, but we can steer spending to support unions and corporations that are friendly to us who will then give us a small portion of the total money thrown down a rat hole as a reward for throwing it down their rat hole.
Ida No almost 9 years ago
3 ounces of chocolate – $20.6 hours of silence – priceless.There are some things money can’t buy. For everything else, there’s MasterCard.