better

A four-panel comic. A child tells their dad that if they could make one wish to make the world better, they'd wish for something. The dad cuts in: "That's impossible. The world isn't a simple cause and effect place. There are network effects. No wish is so perfect that it doesn't cause harm that needs to be corrected elsewhere." The child says they'd wish for every tool that fits in the hand to be spring-loaded. The dad, intrigued, asks: "Wait, so like every fork, every screwdriver, every umbrella... you press a button and -SHINK- it pops out?" In the final panel the dad is shown smiling broadly, glasses gleaming, with the small red-shirted child peeking out from behind his shoulder, as he declares: "Yeah, neat, right? I'm quitting my job. I have purpose now." The joke: the dad immediately abandons his lofty cynicism the moment the kid's wish sounds fun. In the votey aftercomic, a close-up of the grinning dad's face says: "This is way better than being an oncologist!" - revealing the prestigious job he's so eager to leave behind.