Comic #6984: grinch

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Panel 1:
They're singing! They're singing! Stealing all their presents brought them together! Perhaps Christmas means more than I—

Panel 2:
Hold up! Economist here.

Panel 3:
The issue isn't the goal, it's the method. Massive theft creates a shared burden among the group.

Panel 4:
If you wanted to turn them against each other you should have created a source of internal discord and suspicion. Like, take only half their presents, but from a specific perceived ethnic group.

Panel 5:
Ancient feuds will be revived and new ones imagined! It's all the hatred for half the work!

Panel 6:
Gosh, you social scientists creep me out.

Panel 7:
Do you want to be "good" or do you want to be optimized?