Comic #5021: skimmed

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Panel 1: Person 1: "I made this software so you can scroll through headlines and select what you’d like to read!"
(Displayed prominently: skimmedit.com)

Panel 2: Person 2: "My God… they’re ONLY reading the headlines. It’s the mental equivalent of reading a menu but never eating anything! We are broken machines! Broken!"

Panel 3: Person 3: "By the time we realized the danger, incentive structures were firmly in place."
Person 4: "People are so addicted to tiny scraps of decontextualized money that they’re willing to give up their most intimate secrets in order to acquire more."

Panel 4: Person 5: "So then how can we make?"
Person 6: "We’ll have to invent new numbers."

Panel 5: Person 7: "The people resolved to revolt."
Person 8: "I’m angry at what I’ve become! I’ve got to change things!"

Panel 6: Person 9: "But, years of public behavior had clouded their ability to experience private feelings."
Person 10: "If I quit, I can’t tell people about how I quit? It’s a catch-22, kind of!"

Panel 7: Person 11: "Finally, the power of government was brought to bear."
Person 12: "We’ve banned social media. It’s too dangerous. Do you think there’ll be an negative side effects?"
Person 13: "Imagine if the entire world consists of opium addicts and then poppy goes extinct."

Panel 8: Person 14: "Our children will be better off."

Panel 9: Person 15: "Hey Billy! Let’s share verses we’ve written about dandelions, and then go visit the old mill!"
Person 16: "You sure you don’t wanna sit in an air-conditioned box and hate yourself for six hours a day?"
Person 15: "Hahaha! I see you’ve been reading the history books!"

Panel 10: Person 17: "But, they will never understand us."
Person 18: "Mom, what’re you doing?"
Person 19: "I ate some good spaghetti today and I can use this searchlight to project it onto the Empire State Building."
Person 20: "Mom, you’re scaring me."

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