2013-07-07
Original: 2013-07-07 on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Panel 1:
Man (granting wishes, green-skinned genie figure with snake-like form): You may have three wishes.
Bearded man: I wish for ten trillion tons of gold.
Panel 2:
Genie: It is done. The price of gold has collapsed. You now possess a mountain of worthless yellow metal.
Bearded man: I wish prices weren't inversely related to supply.
Panel 3:
Genie: It is done. Price now scales with supply. Your gold is more expensive, but nearly as expensive as common commodities like wheat and rice. Air now costs one hundred trillion dollars per breath.
Panel 4:
Bearded man: I wish I could afford to breathe.
Genie: It is done. Everyone else will be dead within two minutes.
Panel 5:
Bearded man (now lying down, defeated): Is there a moral to this story?
A woman reading a book (titled "Econ Without Tears"): Morality is an unnecessary hypothesis.
Votey:
Person off-panel: Why do you do so many genie comics?
Bearded man (slumped, hand on face): I made a dumb wish years ago.
Man (granting wishes, green-skinned genie figure with snake-like form): You may have three wishes.
Bearded man: I wish for ten trillion tons of gold.
Panel 2:
Genie: It is done. The price of gold has collapsed. You now possess a mountain of worthless yellow metal.
Bearded man: I wish prices weren't inversely related to supply.
Panel 3:
Genie: It is done. Price now scales with supply. Your gold is more expensive, but nearly as expensive as common commodities like wheat and rice. Air now costs one hundred trillion dollars per breath.
Panel 4:
Bearded man: I wish I could afford to breathe.
Genie: It is done. Everyone else will be dead within two minutes.
Panel 5:
Bearded man (now lying down, defeated): Is there a moral to this story?
A woman reading a book (titled "Econ Without Tears"): Morality is an unnecessary hypothesis.
Votey:
Person off-panel: Why do you do so many genie comics?
Bearded man (slumped, hand on face): I made a dumb wish years ago.
Alt text
A five-panel comic. A bearded man is granted three wishes by a green snake-like genie. Panel 1: "You may have three wishes." The man wishes for ten trillion tons of gold. Panel 2: The genie says it is done, but the price of gold has collapsed and the man now owns a mountain of worthless yellow metal; the man wishes prices weren't inversely related to supply. Panel 3: The genie says price now scales with supply, so his gold is pricier but only as expensive as wheat or rice, and air now costs one hundred trillion dollars per breath. Panel 4: The man wishes he could afford to breathe; the genie says it is done and everyone else will be dead within two minutes. Panel 5: Lying defeated, the man asks if there is a moral to the story. A woman reading a book titled "Econ Without Tears" replies, "Morality is an unnecessary hypothesis." Votey (aftercomic), hand-drawn: Someone off-panel asks the slumped, hand-on-face man, "Why do you do so many genie comics?" He answers, "I made a dumb wish years ago."
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.