dance-2

A two-panel SMBC comic. In the main panel, a balding career counselor wearing round glasses and a red shirt sits at a desk across from a client with wavy red hair, shown from behind. The counselor says, 'Have you considered learning to dance in a way that pleases the machines?' A caption below reads: 'Lately our career counselor has focused on long term job security.' In the votey (aftercomic), the counselor's bespectacled face appears alone and he adds, 'Don't do the robot. They will kill you.' The joke: the counselor's career advice for surviving a machine-dominated future is to dance in a way that flatters the machines, and specifically to avoid doing the dance move called 'the robot,' which the machines would apparently take as mockery and retaliate against.