Mutant Pizza

PANEL ONE
TERRY:
Modern software and storefronts are designed to psychologically manipulate people into consuming as much as possible. It’s a trap that we don’t even know we’ve fallen into.

GLOTT:
What brought this up?

PANEL TWO

TERRY:
Experience. I’ve been sucked into a system where products advertise how much time and hassle they could save me, when in reality they are just plastic trinkets that break after a couple of uses and end up in a land fill somewhere.

GLOTT (OFF PANEL):
Don’t you work in marketing? Aren’t you the progenitor of very thing you’re cautioning against?

PANEL THREE

TERRY:
That’s why I got into marketing! To try and stop such unethical practices and deter rampant consumerism. We can advertise products without turning shopping into an addiction.

PANEL FOUR

GLOTT:
Hey, good for you for trying to change the world. No matter how naive and fruitless your attempt is.

GLOTT:
Wait, if you’re trying to reduce materialism, that means less useless junk for me to pillage. Terry, you must desist this hopeless mission!

PANEL FIVE

TERRY:
Can’t you just pillage more?

GLOTT:
Like your house?

TERRY:
I was thinking rich people’s houses.

GLOTT:
They’re better at fighting back though. Too much work.

THE END.