generivory

A six-panel SMBC comic. A woman asks a man in a red shirt if he has any special dietary restrictions; he says he's a "generivore." When she asks what that means, he explains he exclusively eats mass-produced products, the more mass-produced the better. He launches into an economic argument: variety and artisanal craftsmanship divert valuable economic inputs, and if everyone used the same bar soap or basic jeans instead of 4000 versions of everything, productivity would grow much faster, reducing poverty, growing retirement portfolios, and lowering infant mortality. The woman, exasperated, says "God, why must everything in modern life be a fraught moral choice." In the final panel the man points and shouts wide-eyed: "Your small batch organic habanero and truffle sea salt kale chips are murder, Sally! They are murder!" Votey (aftercomic): a close-up of the same man, looking sheepish, saying "I brought a sack of Twinkies and 48-pack of Bud Lite for the party though!"