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{{comic | number = 4564 | date = July 19, 2017 | title = dream-inequality | image = 1500415380-soonish10.png | votey = 1500415397-soonish10after.png | titletext = I swear, I don't mean this comic to harbor any political perspective. I just thought it was funny. }} ==Explanation== {{incomplete}} ==Transcript== {{Computertranscript}} :[Describe panel here] :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/ :6 :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 :Caption: This bonus update is thanks to people who preordered soonish! Thank you/ cluck for more info. ==Votey Transcript== {{Computertranscript}} :[Describe panel here] :cly :U my {{comic discussion}}
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