capital-2
Original: capital-2 on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Panel 1:
Customer (a woman with dark hair, seen from behind the shop counter): HELLO. I'M INTERESTED IN SUBSTITUTING CAPITAL FOR LABOR.
Caption (below panel): You could always tell when the person buying the sex toy was an economist.
Votey:
The same customer, drawn in a loose sketch style: IT'S NOT A SEX THING, IT'S CAPITAL DEEPENING.
Customer (a woman with dark hair, seen from behind the shop counter): HELLO. I'M INTERESTED IN SUBSTITUTING CAPITAL FOR LABOR.
Caption (below panel): You could always tell when the person buying the sex toy was an economist.
Votey:
The same customer, drawn in a loose sketch style: IT'S NOT A SEX THING, IT'S CAPITAL DEEPENING.
Alt text
A woman with dark hair stands at a shop counter, facing a red-haired clerk seen from behind. Speech bubble from the woman: "Hello. I'm interested in substituting capital for labor." Caption beneath the panel: "You could always tell when the person buying the sex toy was an economist." Votey: a rough sketch of the same woman saying, "It's not a sex thing, it's capital deepening." The joke uses economics jargon (substituting capital for labor, capital deepening) as a deadpan euphemism for buying a sex toy.
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.