Comic #5767: market-failure

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Here’s the transcription of the comic's text:

1. Panel 1:
   • Child: "Wow, a quarter a cup. What a deal!"
   • Adult: (no text)
2. Panel 2:
   • Child: "My parents think I’m learning to be entrepreneurial, so they’re fronting the cost of production. Sales are 100% profit for me."
3. Panel 3:
   • Child: "By flooding the market with inexpensive lemonade I will strangle every local supplier of refreshing drinks."
4. Panel 4:
   • Child: "With the competition suffocated, every parched tongue will make its way to Billy’s lemonade stand, only to find the price has been jacked up twentyfold."
5. Panel 5:
   • Child: "Everyone will be too thirsty to swallow, but they’ll have to swallow monopoly pricing."
6. Panel 6:
   • Child: "The people will rise up! We’ll just drink healthy refreshing water!"
7. Panel 7:
   • Adult: "You’re gonna get through your workday without sugar or artificial flavoring? Stop blowing smoke up your own ass, you old fool."
8. Panel 8:
   • Adult: "All right, give me the damn lemonade."
   • Child: "Have a blessed day, sir!"

This captures the dialogue and context of the comic accurately!