Comic #5095: bah-2
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Panel 1:
"In the near future, all work will be automated."
Panel 2:
"The gains will be vast. Humans will live a life of unimaginable luxury, with the opportunity to spend life studying philosophy and poetry."
Panel 3:
"This will wreak a terrible psychological toll. Why? Because we won't actually read all that philosophy and poetry, and we will feel guilt. If robots are doing all the work, everyone’s problems in your life are all clearly your fault."
Panel 4:
"Therefore, I propose a major innovation in automation: instead of robot servants, we should make robot bosses. In fact, douchey robot bosses."
Panel 5:
"DRBs don’t leave you enough time to do things you care about. Why haven’t you read the entire local classical library?"
Panel 6:
"DRBs will give you contradictory notes, will demand unreasonable deadlines, and will be personally late on everything. This will lead you to become so mentally taxed that you'll all end up to watch four hours of TV every night while eating a tube of cookie dough."
Panel 7:
"Why were you mean to your spouse this week? Certainly not because you’re a selfish jerk! You were overwhelmed by how condescending your DRB was."
Panel 8:
"And you can tune your boss's level of douchey to afford yourself the maximum amount of leeway."
Panel 9:
"Wanna spend two hours eating cheesecake for lunch? Set your boss to 'really cross the line this time.'"
Panel 10:
"Wanna long vacation? Have your boss unreasonably fire you! You’ve earned a break, man!"
Panel 11:
"Look, humans are broken, we can’t live a life of endless yeses if we can convince ourselves we’ve 'earned' it."
Panel 12:
"Couldn’t we instead, like, work on ourselves? Like, be more at peace with life and its vicissitudes?"
Panel 13:
"Literally everyone who ever succeeded at that got poisoned, stabbed, or crucified. It’s time to move on!"
Panel 14 (Bottom):
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