penthouse
Original: penthouse on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Panel 1:
Speaker (a man in a suit standing at a podium, pointing upward): THEREFORE I PROPOSE THAT ALL RICH PEOPLE BE FORCED TO LIVE IN SKYSCRAPER PENTHOUSES, WHERE THEY TECHNICALLY AGE FASTER!
Caption (below panel): My movement for "relativistic social justice" hasn't yet found its audience.
Votey:
Speaker (the same man, gesturing): ALL YOUNG PEOPLE MUST BE ALLOWED TO STAY IN THEIR PARENTS' BASEMENT!
Speaker (a man in a suit standing at a podium, pointing upward): THEREFORE I PROPOSE THAT ALL RICH PEOPLE BE FORCED TO LIVE IN SKYSCRAPER PENTHOUSES, WHERE THEY TECHNICALLY AGE FASTER!
Caption (below panel): My movement for "relativistic social justice" hasn't yet found its audience.
Votey:
Speaker (the same man, gesturing): ALL YOUNG PEOPLE MUST BE ALLOWED TO STAY IN THEIR PARENTS' BASEMENT!
Alt text
A man in a suit stands at a lectern, brow furrowed, pointing one finger upward as he addresses an audience. His speech bubble reads: "THEREFORE I PROPOSE THAT ALL RICH PEOPLE BE FORCED TO LIVE IN SKYSCRAPER PENTHOUSES, WHERE THEY TECHNICALLY AGE FASTER!" A caption below the panel reads: "My movement for 'relativistic social justice' hasn't yet found its audience." The joke plays on general relativity, where time passes very slightly faster at higher altitude, reframed as a tongue-in-cheek punishment for the wealthy. Votey (black-and-white aftercomic): a close-up of the same man, still gesturing, declaring: "ALL YOUNG PEOPLE MUST BE ALLOWED TO STAY IN THEIR PARENTS' BASEMENT!" — the inverse relativistic logic, since lower altitude means aging slightly slower.
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.