Comic #2972: 2013-07-07
Description
Here is the text from the comic transcribed accurately:
Panel 1:
- Text: "YOU MAY HAVE THREE WISHES."
- Character 1: "I wish for ten billion tons of gold."
- Character 2 (genie): [smiling]
Panel 2:
- Genie: "It is done. The price of gold has collapsed. You now possess a mountain of worthless yellow metal."
Panel 3:
- Character 1: "I wish prices weren't inversely related to supply."
- Genie: "It is done. Price now scales with supply. Your gold is more expensive, but not nearly as expensive as common commodities like wheat and rice. Air now costs one hundred trillion dollars per breath."
Panel 4:
- Character 1: "I wish I could afford to breathe."
- Genie: "It is done. Everyone else will be dead within two minutes."
Panel 5:
- Character 1: [looking worried]
- [silent]
Panel 6:
- Text: "Is there a moral to this story?"
- Character 2: "Morality is an unnecessary hypothesis."
- Character 3 (reading): "ECONOMETRIC FABLES."