Dream-inequality

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dream-inequality

Title text: I swear, I don't mean this comic to harbor any political perspective. I just thought it was funny.

Votey

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Ive a massive social inequality.

I wanna be rich and famous and an astronaut and a cheerleader and fireman

My god he has so many more dreams than me it's not fair!

Sociologists investigated.

Aspirational dreams peak at age 7 after which they taper off cratering to

Almost nothing by age 12

We adults are the 99%

Economists made suggestions.

We need to get children to give their dreams to adults.

How about we force them into a no-bankruptcy-allowed high interest loan system in order to achieve a certificate that qualifies them for a middle class job?

That just seems barbaric.

Politicians seized the opportunity.

Aspirational dreams are the key to a healthy economy but a literally very small portion of the population controls all of them! Some say, "they're just children." I say children are the future so they ought to start paying now!

There was some pushback against elites

A 29% marginal dream tax?! Damned dream lebeians id dream up away to destroy them, but they'd tax that too/

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Mother! Another

Sprinkles and tonic.

Journa

But. Ultimately, forces for social change won the day

Today the supreme court upheld the transfer of dreams from young to old the judges celebrated by piling into the chief justices robes and pretending to be a submarine

As the new system progressed, sociologists noticed emergent effects

Apparently having more dreams makes the average adult less happy I wonder why

Who cares I'll never be the unicorn astronaut I was meant to be

The more that children's dreams were taxed, the more adult they became,

Hey susie wanna come to my treehouse and play frugal personal finance?

Hooray

But by then. The system was incapable of change

The richest people can afford tofulfill their dreams everyone else is sad

We need to petition the supreme court. But nobody's seen them since they upheld this system

They've us periscope down!

On the plus side old rich people are far more amusing

I am batman! Whee!

Though there remains bit of generational strife

Now that you've taken all hope, could you at least share some of the wealth?

You kids

These days

Are so entitled

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