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I've been thinking about this cartoon a lot lately, against the backdrop of the Occupy Movement. I drew it in January 2008, the first cartoon of the new year. This was before the great financial meltdown, although the recession had technically started already. It gets at something that lies at the heart of our dysfunctional economy: we've seen spectacular gains in productivity thanks to technology over the years, yet workers haven't reaped any of the benefits. As I wrote at the time:

All that increased worker productivity has helped lift corporate profits to record levels, yet in terms of real income, workers aren’t sharing in the wealth they’ve created. Median income has stalled during Bush's reign. Meanwhile, the incomes of even mediocre executives are ballooning like the force-fed geese used to make their foie gras. Screw that!

I'm not literally making the case for Ludditism, but being something of a stop-and-smell-the-roses slowpoke, I think it's time we asked ourselves: what's the rush?

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