Ant

A comic riffing on Aesop's fable of the Ant and the Grasshopper. In the main panel, set in a music studio, a green grasshopper casually holding an acoustic guitar speaks down to a tiny red ant standing before it: "Listen, you've been loyal to this music studio, but I don't have any openings for your son. Hell, you're lucky you're still here." A caption beneath reads: "The ants struggled to adjust to a post-industrial economy." The joke inverts the classic moral: the industrious, hardworking ants are now the precarious labor while the music-playing grasshopper holds power. The votey (aftercomic) shows a single weary ant with a downturned mouth, a speech bubble saying: "Just wish I didn't have to drive Uber after work" -- driving home the gig-economy punchline.