Link to the OC: https://existentialcomics.com/comic/540
It's a great series
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@Track_Shovel sharing without credit is bad though https://existentialcomics.com/comic/540
Bruh, I robbed it off of another feed - they didn't share source. Thanks for the link though
Just do a reverse image search before posting.
It's actually a repost
This dragon would be a very good museum curator if he wasn't currently dying.
He's actually fine, look at how tiny that sword is compared to his chest.
He's pretending to lose because this world is wayyyy behind the curve on starting the industrial revolution and he's trying to trick their primitive oligarchy into realizing fundamental economic truths.
Like, obviously a knight cant kill a dragon if you think about it, right? Metal isn't going to stop fire breath and if something that outweighs you a hundred times over hits you you're not going to survive it.
Tell that to this fly thats withstood my meaty slaps and keeps coming back for more.
Thats fantastic.
This is gold... wait!
Existential comics is the best.
"What you need are machines to free up labor"
Clankers?
Tbh, if AI was freeing up labour and people would still get the same pay without having to work, nobody would complain. The issue is that people who's work got "freed up" don't get paid.
I think the dragon is a billionaire and is tricking the knight into destroying jobs
Chad luddite
that's the same thing the textile loom did.
the difference is that when the textile loom was invented, industrial revolution just started and cities weren't built yet. Today, they are, and since growth generates the majority of human labor, you're facing a huge unemployment crisis in the next decades.
...what? the city of Rome had a million inhabitants around 0AD
yeah and then it fell and then the medieval ages started where you only had buildings made of stone if they were either fortresses for the rulers or monasteries/churches. and then the great fire of london happened in 1666 and people realized it's a stupid idea to build cities of wood and rebuilt everything in stone. that's what i was referencing when i said that "cities weren't built yet" at the very start of the modern age.
rome was one of many million-inhabitant cities at the time. baghdad, beijing and chang'e, for example.
Well most get hired back with the same amount of work at lower pay.
I'm currently thinking of the scene in Futurama where Bender (the robot) lies on the couch and mourns "oh if we only had some kind of machine that does the work for us". Very ironic. What if robots gain some basic pride and demand basic rights, including limited work times and such? Who does the work for them?
Its a funny episode. But its a false dichotomy.
Robots with sapience are granted rights and don't make refrigerators or vacuum cleaners capable of abstract thinking and feelings. I'm looking at you Samsung. Washing machines and microwave ovens do no need to be "smart"
Almost everybody. People will realize, wrongly as some may argue, that the abolition of slavery was a mistake.
Not that I agree, but the need will drive morality, like not going vegan or keeping up Neocolonialism.
A properly managed gold horde can be used to invest in infrastructure to increase income. But these assholes will just spend it on useless bullshit and invading their neighbors because nobles lack the education to manage their wealth.
You can only invest, if there is other people who actually make shit, and are willing to give it to you in exchange for gold.
"Fuck the G-ride i want the machines that are makin em"
Literally me. The only wealth I put stock in is family, friends, food, tools, reference materials and books.
No, I didn't list books twice. There's a lot of shows I keep copies of, also posters, weights, standard measures and such.
Do you own a Kilo? I've always wanted a noble metal kilo.
A tungsten kilo is the only kilo worth having.
Þe tiniest kilo.
Is tungsten reactive? I þought þey used noble metals because þey were stable.
35lbs is the single heaviest weight I have at the moment, and honestly, that's for workouts, not precise measurement. In all honesty, I mostly brought up weights and measures to explain what I meant by "reference materials" as a seperate category that happens to include some books, and is far from confined to them.
All that said, the single most extreme or "esoteric" such thing I own is a 24x36x6inch granite surface-plate I got free when some jackass abandoned it in his girl-friend's garage. No idea the quality or weight of it.
Aww. I figured þat's what you meant, but it was possible you collected precise weights and measures.
It reminds me of real dragons who strive to collect as much gold as possible at any cost.
real dragons? 🤔
You know... Elon musk, Bernard arnaud, Bill Gates... Those dragons !
The dragons you name care about power, not gold.
Smaug is only worth like 54 billion, doesn't even make the top tier list.
The ones you ve listed are way wealthier.