planned-economics
Original: planned-economics on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Panel 1:
A woman in a teal jacket stands and gestures while addressing a group seated around a conference table.
Woman: GOOD PLANNERS CONTRIBUTE MORE TO THE ECONOMY. WE NEED A WAY TO QUIETLY MAKE A MASSIVE WEALTH TRANSFER FROM BAD PLANNERS TO GOOD.
Panel 2:
Banner across the top: SOON...
A bald man wearing dark sunglasses and a white lab coat stands beside a screen displaying a line graph. The graph's vertical axis is labeled "usage" and the horizontal axis is labeled "time." The line spikes sharply at the start, plummets to nearly zero, has one small bump partway through, and stays flat near zero.
Man: WE CALL IT... THE THREE-YEAR GYM MEMBERSHIP.
Votey:
Close-up of the bald man in sunglasses, mouth open, laughing.
Text: HA HA HA HA!
A woman in a teal jacket stands and gestures while addressing a group seated around a conference table.
Woman: GOOD PLANNERS CONTRIBUTE MORE TO THE ECONOMY. WE NEED A WAY TO QUIETLY MAKE A MASSIVE WEALTH TRANSFER FROM BAD PLANNERS TO GOOD.
Panel 2:
Banner across the top: SOON...
A bald man wearing dark sunglasses and a white lab coat stands beside a screen displaying a line graph. The graph's vertical axis is labeled "usage" and the horizontal axis is labeled "time." The line spikes sharply at the start, plummets to nearly zero, has one small bump partway through, and stays flat near zero.
Man: WE CALL IT... THE THREE-YEAR GYM MEMBERSHIP.
Votey:
Close-up of the bald man in sunglasses, mouth open, laughing.
Text: HA HA HA HA!
Alt text
A two-panel comic. Panel one: a woman in a teal jacket stands and gestures to colleagues seated around a conference table, saying, "Good planners contribute more to the economy. We need a way to quietly make a massive wealth transfer from bad planners to good." Panel two, labeled "Soon...": a bald man in dark sunglasses and a white lab coat stands next to a screen showing a line graph labeled "usage" (vertical) versus "time" (horizontal). The line spikes high at the start, crashes to almost zero, blips up once partway through, and flatlines. He says, "We call it... the three-year gym membership." The joke: the gym membership extracts money from people who plan poorly and quit going almost immediately, while disciplined people keep using it. Votey aftercomic: a close-up of the same sunglasses-wearing man laughing, "Ha ha ha ha!"
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.