Comic #6706: more-beautiful

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Here’s the transcription of the comic:

Panel 1:
Person 1: I think once we have AI doing all the work, it's going to be a lot more beautiful. More art, more poetry, more peace.

Panel 2:
Person 2: Nah. The robots have already been in charge for years.
Person 1: What?
Person 2: Do you know who the major consumers of news opinion shows are?
Person 1: No?
Person 2: Retirees.

Panel 3:
Narration: The people with the most time for contemplation -
Narration: the people whose lives are most like what you'd expect in a post-work world - are also the people most likely to spend all day posting fake statistics to Facebook all day via poorly-reproduced memes.

Panel 4:
Person 3: My god… in a post-work world… we are all overly-online uncles.
Person 1: Unless…

Panel 5:
Person 2: Unless… unless there were a constant supply of service sector jobs with no purpose, which—
Person 1: Holy fucking shit.

Panel 6:
Person 2: Yes, yes, step into the looking glass.

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