Comic #3766: commodities

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Panel 1:
"We were tired of how slow the future came.
Where's my flying car?
Where's my Martian outpost?
Where's my pocket supercomputer with a longer battery life?"

Panel 2:
"We recognized the flawed heart of the system.
Science is driven by human curiosity.
We can do better."

Panel 3:
"We set up a futures market for non-existent commodities.
I will pay a thousand dollars for a pound of T. rex meat, to be delivered in five years!"

Panel 4:
"The market boomed.
My god. There are millions of T. rex meat contracts.
Nobody thinks it's deliverable."

Panel 5:
"Major biotech firms became interested.
Scientists! Cease making new boner pills!
Why do people always ask that?"

Panel 6:
"And the invisible hand of the market gave a great big middle finger to evolutionary history.
Science!
Capitalism!"

Panel 7:
"There was a brief panic, as buyers tried to renege on contracts.
Turns out I don't love the idea of paying a week's wages for a pound of lizard meat."

Panel 8:
"A brief panic.
Okay. I'll pay.
Isn't it illegal to threaten people with dinosaur attack?"

Panel 9:
"Show me where it says that in the Constitution!"

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