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submitted 3 months ago by Bad@jlai.lu to c/comicstrips@lemmy.world

[inventor, showing their machine called "The awesome non polluting thing maker"] My awesome new invention will be a net positive to everyone's lives

[capitalist, smoking a cigar] Great! How can we restrict access to it and profit from it?

https://thebad.website/comic/capitalism_drives_innovation

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[-] bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de 41 points 3 months ago

"I invented a machine that removes the commercialism from Christmas."

"Let's build lots of them and sell them for a lot of money."

[-] deegeese@sopuli.xyz 15 points 3 months ago

Please donate to help stop the orphan crushing machine.

[-] Bad@jlai.lu 22 points 3 months ago
[-] DarkCloud@lemmy.world 9 points 3 months ago

Heaven is where everyone on earth has learned to be hyper generous, hell is where everyone on earth is hyper stingy.

We can have either in just a few generations.

[-] Limonene@lemmy.world 6 points 3 months ago

It would be profitable if they taxed pollution according to the damage it causes.

[-] Squorlple@lemmy.world 4 points 3 months ago

I can only read this in Gumball and Darwin’s voices due to the color palette

this post was submitted on 01 May 2025
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