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A five-panel comic, color, between a bearded younger man and his older bespectacled father sitting in an armchair. Panel 1: the son asks, "Dad, if you could live your life over again, knowing what you know now... would you change anything?" The father exclaims, "Oh god yes!" Panel 2: the father, gleeful, says, "I know the outcome of every Superbowl, every World Cup, every Kentucky Derby! I'd be rich rich RICH!" Panel 3: the son cautions, "But you wouldn't have the struggle that makes life meaningful," and the father happily agrees, "Yeah!" Panel 4: the son, deadpan, asks, "You would live a life of pointless hedonism?" Panel 5: the father, wide-eyed and earnest, replies, "I'd settle for just pointless!" Votey (aftercomic): plain black-and-white drawing of a rough, sketchy skull-like face; the father's speech bubble reads, "You really don't need a lot of possessions in life. Just scads and scads of money." The joke: the father openly embraces a meaningless life as long as it's wealthy.