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I think the implication of the last panel is supposed to be that the apple seller can't stop everyone, but if this was really an accurate satire, he'd chop down every tree, sue everyone that picked the apples, and then go back to selling his giant flavorless GMO apples for $5 a piece
The hell of it is, some people would still be happy to buy his apples. Look, I ain't got time or health insurance to be fucking around climbing an apple tree, here's some cash, apples pls. But that's not good enough for the investors, who want guaranteed 5% growth every quarter, so now we've got to pour kerosene on the extra apples and force people to go hungry.
You've read The Vines of Wrath.
It's The Grapes of Being A Bit Miffed actually
Much better than the sequel, The Apricots of Annoyance.
The porn Adaptation, Plums of Pleasure, is a banger though, pun intended.
Fun fact: A stable company may appear to be growing by ~3% a year if you don't account for inflation.
I guess that's a silver lining because then investors don't see a stable company as stagnating.
Congratulations, you just discovered nominal value.
Are you really trying to put forth the incredibly naive proposition that the stock market is not aware of inflation?
I... guess so?
He would fence off the trees, and lobby his local government to require permits for picking apples, permits that have an issuing limit that somehow coincides with the number of apple stands he has. Picking apples without a permit would result in a fine of $10,000, or a year in jail.
I bet the Once-ler wouldn't have that attitude.
MFer needs a super-axe-hacker. Then he could whack down four apple trees in one smacker.
If you haven't done so already I'd recommend listening to the scrapped movie song "biggering" which was cancelled because it scared illumination
Why does it matter if an apple is modified or not?
Modifying plants for better yields, less water usage, higher resistance to pests, better taste, and so on. Seems like a great idea in my mind.
Either way this comic is bad. It's stupidly easy to just plant an apple tree in your back/front yard, if you have one. Apples aren't that picky about where they want to be planted.
They should have gone for a better analogy if they are trying to say something.
In general, I am not opposed to GMOs. All those benefits would be great. But in practice, companies aren't modifying the product to be better for the consumer, they're modifying it to sell better, and cost less to produce. That basically means bigger, and less diverse, which actually ends up making them less resistant to pests and disease
the problem isn't gmo. the problem is the profit motivation that will invite disaster.
Wait until you learn that we've been genetically modifying our food via selective breeding for as long as we've had agriculture.
And staying "fresh" longer etc.
Originally I thought the joke was that after chopping down the one tree, eventually he had a shitload of trees grow (from the fallen apples), but guess not.
Only if he couldn't figure out a way to rent apples to customers.
Yeah, I see this comic and find myself wishing we lived in such a world.