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{{comic | number = 4278 | date = October 26, 2016 | title = the-grasshopper-and-the-ants | image = 1477495213-20161026.png | votey = 1477495228-20161026after.png | titletext = I really feel there's an entire field to be had by bringing together literature and economics. Like, does anyone else side with Scrooge during that scene where his nephew asks him to contribute to an unevaluated charity. }} ==Explanation== {{incomplete}} ==Transcript== {{Computertranscript}} :[Describe panel here] :Once upon a time, there was a grasshopper and some ants. :Come winter time, there was very little food. The grasshopper died. So did the ants who did most of the work. :The grasshopper played his fiddle and danced all summer long, while the ants worked hard. :The ants who died spent their entire lives as a sexless slave race, devoted to a distant, all-powerful overlord who thought less of them than her own excreta. :The grasshopper experienced happiness, but died in sorrow. The ants experienced neither joy nor pain -only monotonous toil. From a naively utilitarian perspective, they came out equal. :Nearby, humans watched, and imagined themselves superior because their lifespans were one cosmic second longer :The end. :Would you like to hear the story of the big bad wolf who improved the gene pool? ==Votey Transcript== {{Computertranscript}} :[Describe panel here] :I am the iterwolf. a {{comic discussion}} [[Category:Comics tagged fables]]
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