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{{comic | number = 4172 | date = July 15, 2016 | title = social-security | image = 1468594805-20160715.png | votey = 1468594820-20160715after.png | titletext = Hey wait, let's use their bodies as batteries for a giant computer. Ha! Just kidding, that's literally the worst way to do that. }} ==Explanation== {{incomplete}} ==Transcript== {{Computertranscript}} :[Describe panel here] :Scientists discovered the key to longevity :Just before their heart stops you start another procedural cop drama. Then, right before it ends, you start yet another. :In retrospect, it's so obvious :At the same time people began having fewer kids. :Would you rather own a few :Vacation homes around europe or push eight pounds of ungratefuuness through your genitals? :Okay, but give me the positive :Spin, too. :I just did. :This created a problem for elder-care social programs :Originally, there were 160 workers per beneficiary then there were 50, then 10 then 5. Today there are about 1.3. In 20 years every worker will be supporting 400 retired people :Automation solved the problem. :The working class now consists of 27 people, and all of them are doing a heck of a job? Their combined output is greater than all 83 workers in india :In time, there was exactly one worker supporting ao billion retired people. :I wish my generation had two workers, so I could take weekends off. :It worked well until he had a evelation :Oh god? I tripped over the plug and it all shut off? :I have so much power. :There was a proletariat uprising. :Me, the working class, has had enough! :A solution was found :We can replace the working class with this adorable hamster. By not moving or thinking he will 86 several times more efficient. :Homanity now consists of a static population of ancient people, perpetually amosed, growing ever more dependent on machine servants :It just sits there all day doing nothing! Why do we serve these things? :They're so cute and helpless :Fortunately our caretakers are pretty good sports :Okay, they can live but I'm drawing wieners on their foreheads thatll last until the sun explodes. :That's a great :Compromise :smbc-comics.com ==Votey Transcript== {{Computertranscript}} :[Describe panel here] :This one has a happy ending 10 In in :Ets {{comic discussion}} [[Category:Comics tagged dystopia]]
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