more-beautiful
Original: more-beautiful on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Panel 1
Man (with reddish/flame-like hair): "I think once we have AI doing all the work, it's going to be a lot more beautiful. More art. More poetry. More peace."
Panel 2
Woman: "Nah. The robots have already been in charge for years."
Man: "What...?"
Panel 3
Woman: "Do you know how the major economists of news opinion columns are?"
Man: "..."
Woman: "Retirees."
Panel 4
Woman: "The people with the most time for contemplation. The people whose lives are most like what you'd expect in a post-work world - are also the people most likely to spend all day posting fake statistics to Facebook all day on poorly-reproduced memes."
Panel 5
Man (looking horrified): "My god... In a post-work world, we are ALL overly-online uncles."
Woman: "Unless..."
Panel 6
Woman: "Unless, unless there were a consistent supply of service-sector jobs with no purpose, which - HOLY FUCKING SHIT."
Man: "Yes. Yes. Step into the looking glass."
Votey:
The man (with flame-like hair), shown close-up and grinning slightly, speaks upward:
"THANK YOU, ROBOTS! THANK YOU FOR THIS BOUNTY OF TEDIUM!"
Man (with reddish/flame-like hair): "I think once we have AI doing all the work, it's going to be a lot more beautiful. More art. More poetry. More peace."
Panel 2
Woman: "Nah. The robots have already been in charge for years."
Man: "What...?"
Panel 3
Woman: "Do you know how the major economists of news opinion columns are?"
Man: "..."
Woman: "Retirees."
Panel 4
Woman: "The people with the most time for contemplation. The people whose lives are most like what you'd expect in a post-work world - are also the people most likely to spend all day posting fake statistics to Facebook all day on poorly-reproduced memes."
Panel 5
Man (looking horrified): "My god... In a post-work world, we are ALL overly-online uncles."
Woman: "Unless..."
Panel 6
Woman: "Unless, unless there were a consistent supply of service-sector jobs with no purpose, which - HOLY FUCKING SHIT."
Man: "Yes. Yes. Step into the looking glass."
Votey:
The man (with flame-like hair), shown close-up and grinning slightly, speaks upward:
"THANK YOU, ROBOTS! THANK YOU FOR THIS BOUNTY OF TEDIUM!"
Alt text
A six-panel black-and-white comic. A man with spiky, flame-like hair talks with a woman. Panel 1: The man optimistically says that once AI does all the work, the world will be more beautiful, with more art, poetry, and peace. Panel 2: The woman replies that robots have actually been in charge for years; the man is confused. Panel 3: She asks who the major opinion economists/columnists are, then answers: retirees. Panel 4: She explains that the people with the most free time, whose lives most resemble a post-work world, are also the people most likely to spend all day posting fake statistics and poorly-reproduced memes on Facebook. Panel 5: The man looks horrified and realizes that in a post-work world, "we are ALL overly-online uncles." The woman says "Unless..." Panel 6: She continues that unless there were a steady supply of pointless service-sector jobs - then exclaims "HOLY FUCKING SHIT" as she gets it. The man says "Yes. Yes. Step into the looking glass," implying meaningless jobs are what save us from becoming endlessly-online retirees. Votey (aftercomic): A close-up of the flame-haired man grinning and looking upward, exclaiming, "THANK YOU, ROBOTS! THANK YOU FOR THIS BOUNTY OF TEDIUM!"
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.