2013-09-21
Original: 2013-09-21 on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Panel 1 (title card): "HOW DO WE STOP TOO MUCH WEALTH ACCUMULATING IN ONE PLACE?"
Panel 2 (header: OPTIMIST): A smiling woman with red hair throws her arms wide.
Optimist: GIVE TO THE POOR!
Panel 3 (header: PESSIMIST): A grim-looking older man in a suit and yellow tie.
Pessimist: TAKE FROM THE RICH.
Panel 4 (header: PHYSICIST): A woman with black hair and glasses wearing a blue shirt.
Physicist: MAKE ALL THE MONEY OUT OF URANIUM.
Votey:
The physicist (close-up).
Physicist: OBVIOUSLY.
Panel 2 (header: OPTIMIST): A smiling woman with red hair throws her arms wide.
Optimist: GIVE TO THE POOR!
Panel 3 (header: PESSIMIST): A grim-looking older man in a suit and yellow tie.
Pessimist: TAKE FROM THE RICH.
Panel 4 (header: PHYSICIST): A woman with black hair and glasses wearing a blue shirt.
Physicist: MAKE ALL THE MONEY OUT OF URANIUM.
Votey:
The physicist (close-up).
Physicist: OBVIOUSLY.
Alt text
A four-panel SMBC comic. The first panel is a title card reading "How do we stop too much wealth accumulating in one place?" The next three panels each give an answer labeled by who's speaking. Optimist: a cheerful red-haired woman with arms thrown wide says "Give to the poor!" Pessimist: a stern older man in a suit and yellow tie says "Take from the rich." Physicist: a deadpan black-haired woman in glasses says "Make all the money out of uranium." The joke: a physicist solves wealth concentration with radioactive decay rather than economics. Votey aftercomic: a close-up of the physicist's face flatly adding "Obviously."
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.