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I think the implication of the last panel is supposed to be that the apple seller can't stop everyone, but if this was really an accurate satire, he'd chop down every tree, sue everyone that picked the apples, and then go back to selling his giant flavorless GMO apples for $5 a piece
The hell of it is, some people would still be happy to buy his apples. Look, I ain't got time or health insurance to be fucking around climbing an apple tree, here's some cash, apples pls. But that's not good enough for the investors, who want guaranteed 5% growth every quarter, so now we've got to pour kerosene on the extra apples and force people to go hungry.
You've read The Vines of Wrath.
Fun fact: A stable company may appear to be growing by ~3% a year if you don't account for inflation.
I guess that's a silver lining because then investors don't see a stable company as stagnating.
Congratulations, you just discovered nominal value.
Are you really trying to put forth the incredibly naive proposition that the stock market is not aware of inflation?
I... guess so?
He would fence off the trees, and lobby his local government to require permits for picking apples, permits that have an issuing limit that somehow coincides with the number of apple stands he has. Picking apples without a permit would result in a fine of $10,000, or a year in jail.
the apple seller can’t stop everyone
I bet the Once-ler wouldn't have that attitude.
If you haven't done so already I'd recommend listening to the scrapped movie song "biggering" which was cancelled because it scared illumination
but if this was really an accurate satire, he'd chop down every tree, sue everyone that picked the apples, and then go back to selling his giant flavorless GMO apples for $5 a piece
Only if he couldn't figure out a way to rent apples to customers.
Originally I thought the joke was that after chopping down the one tree, eventually he had a shitload of trees grow (from the fallen apples), but guess not.
Yeah, I see this comic and find myself wishing we lived in such a world.
I'm not 14 years old enough to get this
Me neither. Though I think it’s “something, something, something, capitalism sucks.”
Selling digital goods in a nutshell, when things are infinitely reproducible, you'll never run out of trees.
they cant stop all of us
There's so much wrong about this picture. But let's start from the obvious: that man shouldn't be able to afford a suit.
The main question around this comic that makes it hard for me to derive a message is, who planted/cared for/owns the apple trees?
I’m reminded of a speech from Gus in Better Call Saul, where technically a tree from his homeland was wild, but he was the one that made the effort to water and care for it before a critter started stealing from it.
I wouldn't follow ethics in business advice from a meth dealer explaining why he killed a wild animal.
Right? It's obviously an orchard, not a forest, and obviously the apples are one of the popular commercial cultivars rather than some wild natural variant.
This comic makes so little sense it's underflowed back to funny for me.
She sells sea shells down by the sea shore
But the value of these shells will fall
I feel like this is a metaphor, I'm just not sure for what yet.
It's a metaphor about 13yo kid trying to understand why people pay money for anything when you can get stuff for free. The only thing a kiddo comes up with is that some people are bad and will chop trees down. Then they go to lemmy.ml and post dumb shit.