2013-01-04
Original: 2013-01-04 on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Panel 1:
Two older men sit in armchairs facing each other across a table with teacups and a teapot. One man has long gray hair; the other is balding with a long dark beard.
Gray-haired man: HEY, YOU KNOW HOW WE SIT AROUND EVERY NIGHT GROUSING ABOUT THE WAY NOBODY AGREES WITH US ABOUT HOW SOCIETY WORKS.
Bearded man: YEP.
Gray-haired man: WHAT IF WE MATHEMATIZED THAT?
Caption (below panel): Before Economics.
Votey:
A man with spiky hair looks worried, holding a paper.
Man (offscreen/from large speech bubble): THE HUMANS AREN'T FITTING MY EQUATION. REPLACE THEM!
Two older men sit in armchairs facing each other across a table with teacups and a teapot. One man has long gray hair; the other is balding with a long dark beard.
Gray-haired man: HEY, YOU KNOW HOW WE SIT AROUND EVERY NIGHT GROUSING ABOUT THE WAY NOBODY AGREES WITH US ABOUT HOW SOCIETY WORKS.
Bearded man: YEP.
Gray-haired man: WHAT IF WE MATHEMATIZED THAT?
Caption (below panel): Before Economics.
Votey:
A man with spiky hair looks worried, holding a paper.
Man (offscreen/from large speech bubble): THE HUMANS AREN'T FITTING MY EQUATION. REPLACE THEM!
Alt text
A SMBC comic. Two old men in suits sit in armchairs across a table set with teacups and a teapot. One has long gray hair, the other is bald with a long dark beard. The gray-haired man says, 'Hey, you know how we sit around every night grousing about the way nobody agrees with us about how society works.' The bearded man replies, 'Yep.' The gray-haired man adds, 'What if we mathematized that?' A caption beneath reads: 'Before Economics.' The joke is that economics began as cranks deciding to put their unpopular opinions about society into equations. Votey (aftercomic, in rough black-and-white sketch): a worried man holding a paper says, 'The humans aren't fitting my equation. Replace them!'
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.