2013-09-30
Original: 2013-09-30 on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Panel 1
Woman (Julia): It's too bad the stupid breed more than smart people do. Eventually everyone will be dumb.
Panel 2
Man: Oh, that's a temporary problem. The stupid people are likely to be financially limited in the amount of high quality children they can produce. True, in the short term they may have more kids.
Panel 3
Man: But, as we speak, there are a few people with the intellectual gifts to make a great deal of money combined with the genetic propensity to produce many many children.
Panel 4
Man: It's a slow process, of course, but now that society directly rewards some forms of genius, it's only a matter of time before we are overrun by hyper-fecund mega-nerds!
Panel 5
Man: See, I can make up theories of the genetic future too.
Julia: You're ruining my cynicism party, Julia.
Votey:
A cartoonish smiling man's face with glasses, drawn in a crude doodle style. Text arcs over the top of his head: "JOIN US"
Woman (Julia): It's too bad the stupid breed more than smart people do. Eventually everyone will be dumb.
Panel 2
Man: Oh, that's a temporary problem. The stupid people are likely to be financially limited in the amount of high quality children they can produce. True, in the short term they may have more kids.
Panel 3
Man: But, as we speak, there are a few people with the intellectual gifts to make a great deal of money combined with the genetic propensity to produce many many children.
Panel 4
Man: It's a slow process, of course, but now that society directly rewards some forms of genius, it's only a matter of time before we are overrun by hyper-fecund mega-nerds!
Panel 5
Man: See, I can make up theories of the genetic future too.
Julia: You're ruining my cynicism party, Julia.
Votey:
A cartoonish smiling man's face with glasses, drawn in a crude doodle style. Text arcs over the top of his head: "JOIN US"
Alt text
A five-panel SMBC comic. In panel 1 a woman named Julia says it's too bad that stupid people breed more than smart people, so eventually everyone will be dumb. In the next panels a man cheerfully rebuts her: he argues it's only a temporary problem, since stupid people are financially limited in how many high-quality children they can afford, and meanwhile a few people combine the intellectual gifts to make a great deal of money with a genetic propensity to have many children. Because society now directly rewards some forms of genius, he concludes it's only a matter of time before we are overrun by 'hyper-fecund mega-nerds.' In the final panel he grins and says, 'See, I can make up theories of the genetic future too,' and the reply is 'You're ruining my cynicism party, Julia.' The joke is that he's mockingly out-cynic-ing her with an equally unfounded eugenic prediction. The votey is a crude doodle of a grinning bespectacled man's face with the words 'JOIN US' arcing over his head, mimicking the 'mega-nerd' takeover.
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.