happiness-4
Original: happiness-4 on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Panel 1:
Man (with dark hair): Why do economists only care about GDP? How about we start measuring happiness?
Woman (with green hair): Happiness? Of humans?
Panel 2:
Woman (with green hair): The species that watches a collective 40 centuries of kicked-in-the-balls videos PER DAY for the sheer joy of it?
Panel 3:
Woman (with green hair): You're talking about the species that takes children to public executions? THOSE humans?
Panel 4:
Man (with dark hair): Well what metric is any better?
Woman (with green hair): We should be maximizing SHAME.
Votey:
A man's head and shoulders.
Man: May I introduce you to the Abrahamic religious traditions?
Man (with dark hair): Why do economists only care about GDP? How about we start measuring happiness?
Woman (with green hair): Happiness? Of humans?
Panel 2:
Woman (with green hair): The species that watches a collective 40 centuries of kicked-in-the-balls videos PER DAY for the sheer joy of it?
Panel 3:
Woman (with green hair): You're talking about the species that takes children to public executions? THOSE humans?
Panel 4:
Man (with dark hair): Well what metric is any better?
Woman (with green hair): We should be maximizing SHAME.
Votey:
A man's head and shoulders.
Man: May I introduce you to the Abrahamic religious traditions?
Alt text
A four-panel comic. A dark-haired man and a green-haired woman talk. Panel 1: The man says, "Why do economists only care about GDP? How about we start measuring happiness?" The woman replies, "Happiness? Of humans?" Panel 2 (close-up of the skeptical woman): "The species that watches a collective 40 centuries of kicked-in-the-balls videos PER DAY for the sheer joy of it?" Panel 3: "You're talking about the species that takes children to public executions? THOSE humans?" Panel 4: The man asks, "Well what metric is any better?" The woman answers, "We should be maximizing SHAME." Votey (aftercomic): A close-up of a smiling man's head who says, "May I introduce you to the Abrahamic religious traditions?" — implying those traditions already maximize shame.
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.