Comic #6431: booked

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Panel 1
Child: "Mom… adults are in charge of the world, right?"
Mom: "Yes."

Panel 2
Child: "That means they ought to understand the world - law, economics, history, science…"
Mom: "Yes."

Panel 3
Child: "But… well, suppose the average world leader is 50 years old."
Mom: "OK."
Child: "And they started reading books for adults at age 18."

Panel 4
Child: "If they read 100 books a year, 32 years, that’s…"
Mom: "About a quarter of a small-town public library."

Panel 5
Child: "And they don’t even read that."
Mom: "They do not."

Panel 6
Child: "Then how… but how…"
Mom: "Would you like to see mommy's basement collection of dry rations and petroleum?"

Source: smbc-comics.com