Comic #3958: work

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Panel 1: Child: “Dad, why do you sit at the computer all day when it just brings you stress?”

Panel 2: Dad: “Well, the world generates a certain amount of stress each day.”

Panel 3: Dad: “People agree to absorb some of the stress. In exchange, we are given money so that we can have houses and food.”

Panel 4: Dad: “It’d be sort of like if you had a mouse in a box with a food pellet dispenser that also delivered electric shocks at random intensities.”

Panel 5: Child: “That sounds awful.”

Panel 6: Dad: “It’s not so bad. If you make sure to get your shock and pellet every day, toward the end of your life you can just eat off your saved pellets.”

Panel 7: Child: “Do you have a lot of pellets saved?”

Panel 8: Dad: “Well, first I have to pay back the pellets I borrowed so I could be allowed in the box?”