Doonesbury by Garry Trudeau for June 21, 2024

Alex has turned into a shark!!!!

A natural born vulture

10 cents to 5 cents to 3 cents on the dollar. OK, but how were the “dollars” determined?

Expect a visit from the SEC, Alex!

Well, I guess business is business. And there’s so much stupid money sloshing around the Valley, a regular working stiff might easily feel some schadenfreude at seeing the Gods of Vaporware brought low. But I recall not liking this side of Alex way back when this exact strip first came out. Let’s hope her next idea isn’t buying the rights to an inexpensive lifesaving drug, then jacking the price up several thousand percent.

Ah Capitalist !

Dilution of deluded schemes. Remember Microsoft didn’t invent MSDOS. They bought the code and then history was made

He has a dim future in sales and negotiations.

Alex, on the other hand….

Wasn’t this the age of Enron?

I use the same techniques that Alex is using when I play monopoly. Amazingly it works quite well.

And the Labor Theory of Value goes down the toilet…where it belongs.

Elon Mush 101

Now check out the candy companies

She’s sending the paperwork C.O.D.

That’s viscous

Interesting how this portrays business at the turn of the century isn’t it ;-)

Two years into a zero player automated pong game? They need to rake back your salary and the manager authorizing that.