Comic #6500: toil
Description
Here’s the transcription of the comic's text:
Panel 1:
- Character 1: "God, why did you make it so man must toil to eat?"
- Character 2: "Do you really want the alternative?"
Panel 2:
- Character 2: "Look at you. You're boring. Not particularly attractive. When you're anxious you fidget and make this weird low humming noise."
- Character 1: "What's that got to do—"
- Character 2: "People tolerate you! Why? Because you are good at programming, project management, and woodworking. Everyone has to toil to eat and you are good at toil so they overlook your obvious and annoying social deficits."
Panel 3:
- Character 2: "In a world without material scarcity, you are toast, bro. Once machine intelligence can handle everything you bring to the table, you will be ignored in favor of hot guys with good hair who remember to shave the spot under their Adam's apple."
Panel 4:
- Character 1: "God, why is this best of all possible worlds still terrible?"
- Character 2: "I think it's pretty good for a first try!"