efficient-2

A one-panel comic. A woman in a red bathrobe stands in a doorway and asks a man seated at a computer screen, "Whatcha doin' up late?" The man, who wears glasses and has a tense, wide-eyed expression, replies, "Efficiently allocating our resources to quantitative finance firms." The woman cheerfully says, "Cool!" A caption beneath the panel reads, "Technically I didn't lie about losing our savings daytrading." The joke is that his fancy euphemism truthfully describes the fact that he gambled away their money. Votey (the bonus panel): a crude doodle of the same man's head and shoulders, with the narration, "Imagine someone told you to jump off a bridge, but it's not a real bridge, just a financial one. Obviously you'd jump."