Editing Profits-and-process

{{comic
	| number    = 3817
	| date      = August 3, 2015
	| title     = profits-and-process
	| image     = 1438612432-20150803.png
	| votey     = 1438612432-20150803after.png
	| titletext = This comic officially not in relation to anything.
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==Explanation==
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==Transcript==
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:[Describe panel here]
:A problem arose.
:According to our study, you can make millions of dollars by running as a third-tier presidential candidate.
:The benefits proved irresistable.
:Currently, 23% of candidates are running
:Explicity to get book sales. Next time, it'll be 48% within 20 years, the only people actually running for president will be hipsters doing it ironically.
:A strange incentive structure was created. Ma am, you. Actually have a chance of
:0
:Winning
:Oh god.
:What?! I am not taking a pay cut
:A new form of competition was born.
:Sir, the lead candidate just said all immigrants
:Are pedophiles.
:How horrible.
:How do I top that?
:A completely novel style of rhetoric came into fashion.
:You know what's wrong with this country? Registered voters!
:As candidates became more relentlessly self-destructive, it became harder and harder to pick the least bad ones.
:This one said all minorities should be killed that one said all minorities should be turned into food. So. I guess
:The second one is being more
:Environmentally
:Friendly?
:Disenchantment swept the nation.
:This year, only 67 of eligible voters went to the poul
:You mean 67 percent, right?
:I do
:Not.
:Soon, exactly one voter remained
:Humiliateme! Do it!
:This is what democracy looks like.
:Lick the boot, loser!
:Taste the lash, piggy!
:More more
:dear
:smbc-conics.com
==Votey Transcript==
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:[Describe panel here]
:Make me watch cable news!
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