Comic #6116: marginal-cost-of-lurking

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Panel 1:

• Child: "Mom! Dad! There's a monster under my bed!"
• Parent: "Sorry, that's not possible. It'd violate the efficient market hypothesis."

Panel 2:

• Parent: "Suppose monsters exist and they want to eat kids. Their time is valuable. Why would they spend all of it lurking? We ought to see a variety of firms developed catering to the needs of monsters, in exchange for their golden hoards."

Panel 3:

• Parent: "You can use the same reasoning to rule out dragons, fairies, leprechauns, vampires, yokai, ghosts, you name it."
• Parent: "I survive the night, but wonder does not."

The comic features a child expressing fear about a monster, and a parent discussing market principles in a humorous way.