financial-literacy
Original: financial-literacy on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Panel 1: A red-haired man speaks to a woman with dark hair.
Man: I created an autonomous drone to help teach financial literacy.
Panel 2: The woman replies.
Woman: Did it work?
Man: It worked too well.
Panel 3 (large panel, close-up on the woman, looking alarmed): It went rogue. Now, it flies into beautiful sunlit vistas and tells people the lifetime financial return, including interest, they're losing by taking the day off.
Panel 4: A different couple (a red-haired man with his arm around a dark-haired woman) sits by a lake at sunset, an orange sun on the horizon. A small drone is heard approaching.
Drone (offscreen): BZZZZZZ1,028.71 DOLLARS! NOT COUNTING LOST PROMOTIONSSSSZZZZZZZ...
Panel 5: The drone zooms in over the couple by the lake, sound lines trailing it.
Panel 6: The couple sits peacefully by the lake; the drone is now flying away into the distance, leaving a "zzzzz" trail.
Panel 7: The same couple is silhouetted against the orange sunset over the lake, sitting together in the now-darkened scene.
Votey:
A hand-drawn sketch of a person's head in profile.
Text: We have to kill all the economists.
Man: I created an autonomous drone to help teach financial literacy.
Panel 2: The woman replies.
Woman: Did it work?
Man: It worked too well.
Panel 3 (large panel, close-up on the woman, looking alarmed): It went rogue. Now, it flies into beautiful sunlit vistas and tells people the lifetime financial return, including interest, they're losing by taking the day off.
Panel 4: A different couple (a red-haired man with his arm around a dark-haired woman) sits by a lake at sunset, an orange sun on the horizon. A small drone is heard approaching.
Drone (offscreen): BZZZZZZ1,028.71 DOLLARS! NOT COUNTING LOST PROMOTIONSSSSZZZZZZZ...
Panel 5: The drone zooms in over the couple by the lake, sound lines trailing it.
Panel 6: The couple sits peacefully by the lake; the drone is now flying away into the distance, leaving a "zzzzz" trail.
Panel 7: The same couple is silhouetted against the orange sunset over the lake, sitting together in the now-darkened scene.
Votey:
A hand-drawn sketch of a person's head in profile.
Text: We have to kill all the economists.
Alt text
A seven-panel SMBC comic. In the first three panels, a red-haired man tells a dark-haired woman he created an autonomous drone to help teach financial literacy. She asks if it worked; he says it worked too well. In a large close-up, she explains the drone went rogue: it now flies into beautiful sunlit vistas and tells people the lifetime financial return, including interest, that they're losing by taking the day off. The remaining panels show a different couple sitting by a lake at sunset; a tiny drone buzzes in shouting "BZZZZZZ1,028.71 DOLLARS! NOT COUNTING LOST PROMOTIONS...", zooms past, and flies off, ruining the peaceful moment, which ends with the couple silhouetted against the orange sunset. Votey: a loose ink sketch of a person's head in profile beside handwritten text reading "We have to kill all the economists."
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.