Tom the Dancing Bug by Ruben Bolling for June 15, 2023

“And that will bring us back to dough (dough dough dough)…”

“Go, Large Mammals!”

Fyi. Cincinnati has no pro basketball team.

“The Government shouldn’t interfere in the marketplace, except to give me tax exemptions that other companies don’t get.” – Jeff Bezos

Every economic system yields “optimal results” for somebody. The trick is to be one of the somebodies.

…….Do I even need to #$%king say it? No… But I will anyway.

CAPITALISM SUCKS.

And leave it to Ron DeSantis to show us how capitalism really works! It’s all centered around those campaign donations….https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/markets/forget-disney-ron-desantis-has-a-surprising-new-target/ar-AA1cyWiY?li=BBnbfcL

The only way to end war is to make copper and brass more expensive than the gains.

I worked for an industry that used massive amounts of (coil) steel, and the first panel is spot on.

Those puppets look familiar. Wonder where they were spirited away from?

“[T]he most oppressive government most people interact with is not associated with any political authority — it’s their employer. Retail stores routinely search employees’ belongings without a warrant, let alone any reason to think they’ve done wrong. They schedule shifts on short notice. They set rules for hair and makeup. Workers in warehouses and factories are constantly surveilled; even their trips to the restroom are regulated. If you’re lucky enough to work a white-collar job, you probably don’t suffer these sorts of intrusions. But you too can be dismissed at any moment. And that leaves you seriously insecure.”

Scott Hershovitz, discussing Elizabeth Anderson’s Private Government: How Employers Rule Our Lives (and Why We Don’t Talk about It).

Go, Geothermal Godzillas!

Kick butt, Killer Kaiju!

Flame on, Dungeness Dragons!

“Yes! … Except, no.”

The Invisible Hand of the marketplace controls everything optimally, except …

Panel 2: “Also, we need local government and taxpayers to buy us a new stadium even though I’m a billionaire and every major league sports team is basically a license to print money.”

Just put me in charge, and I’ll make sure everything runs well. Trust me.

The Orthodox Church of Free Enterprise. It’s the American faith.

Everybody wants to get into the act.

Marx was for the people owning the industries not govts nor owners.

Economists. The shame of academia and a disaster for the “Free World”.

FIY the neoliberal economists can’t do math. They drop all of the variables in their calculations. They are either stupid or can’t get the results they want by incorrectly dropping the variables. My choice is both.

Another FYI. There is no such thing as a Noble Prize in economics. It is an Honorary Noble Prize. The Economic Award is paid by the Swedish Central Bank. The Noble committees don’t even look at economics. They know that Alfred Noble considered “Economics” worthless and stupid.