efficient

A three-panel comic set in a bedroom at night. A woman with brown hair lies in bed beside a man and asks, "Wanna do it?" The man responds, "Free sex? FREE? I just learned about the efficient market hypothesis, and I'm pretty sure free sex is impossible." In the second panel, the man stares wide-eyed at the ceiling, reasoning: "Logically one of us wants the sex more than the other. That person ought to pony up an amount of money contingent on their level of disattraction. Otherwise someone is getting something for nothing." In the third panel he declares, "The price of sex has just risen to any amount more than whatever you have," and the woman, smiling slyly, replies, "See? The market instantly finds prices!" Votey: a close-up of the man's anxious, sweating face as he wonders, "Why isn't someone instantly under-cutting her price?"