utopia
Original: utopia on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Panel 1 (single wide panel): A figure stands at a podium on a snowy raised platform, addressing a small group of people standing below in the snow.
Speaker at podium: "YOU WERE COMMANDED BY THE LORD TO GIVE TO THE POOR—"
Speaker at podium: "—BUT THERE ARE NO POOR! TECHNOLOGICAL AND SOCIAL ADVANCES ALLOWED!"
One of the people below (responding): "SPARE ME YOUR QUIBBLING! I'VE HEARD ENOUGH!"
Caption (below the panel): The major downside to the post-scarcity utopia is how everyone goes to Hell.
Votey:
A close-up of a scowling, angry-looking man with a furrowed brow and frowning mouth.
Man: "THIS PLACE SUCKS WITH ALL THE GOODY TWO SHOES."
Speaker at podium: "YOU WERE COMMANDED BY THE LORD TO GIVE TO THE POOR—"
Speaker at podium: "—BUT THERE ARE NO POOR! TECHNOLOGICAL AND SOCIAL ADVANCES ALLOWED!"
One of the people below (responding): "SPARE ME YOUR QUIBBLING! I'VE HEARD ENOUGH!"
Caption (below the panel): The major downside to the post-scarcity utopia is how everyone goes to Hell.
Votey:
A close-up of a scowling, angry-looking man with a furrowed brow and frowning mouth.
Man: "THIS PLACE SUCKS WITH ALL THE GOODY TWO SHOES."
Alt text
A wide single-panel cartoon set in a snowy landscape. A figure stands at a tall podium on a raised platform, gesturing as it lectures a small group of people standing below in the snow. The podium figure says, 'You were commanded by the Lord to give to the poor— but there are no poor! Technological and social advances allowed!' One of the listeners below replies indignantly, 'Spare me your quibbling! I've heard enough!' A caption beneath the panel reads: 'The major downside to the post-scarcity utopia is how everyone goes to Hell.' Votey: a close-up of a grumpy, scowling man with a furrowed brow saying, 'This place sucks with all the goody two shoes.'
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.