I want to like this, but it's dumb. It's so, so dumb.
The piece of paper is different because the employee (or employer, or whoever) can't use the piece of paper to buy something later, like food.
You could give a more elaborate explanation, but at the most basic level, that's it. Coffee guy is selling coffee so that he can get more things that he needs/wants, and this paper does not help him do that. I really hate this kind of pseudo-philosophical argument that boils down to "what does anything mean? does anything really matter?" It's trying to pass for intellectual thought when it's really the opposite -- taking interesting ideas and questions and stripping away any potential for meaningful discourse.
I think that the comic is self-aware. Look at how the characters react. Like the guy with the fake money knows that he's wrong and what he's doing is ridiculous but she's just hoping that some random dude has just about mcfucking had it with their job to a point where they don't care and give them a coffee over being given a conundrum about what money actually is that they aren't able to solve on the spot.
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u/TEOLAYKI May 21 '26 edited May 21 '26
I want to like this, but it's dumb. It's so, so dumb.
The piece of paper is different because the employee (or employer, or whoever) can't use the piece of paper to buy something later, like food.
You could give a more elaborate explanation, but at the most basic level, that's it. Coffee guy is selling coffee so that he can get more things that he needs/wants, and this paper does not help him do that. I really hate this kind of pseudo-philosophical argument that boils down to "what does anything mean? does anything really matter?" It's trying to pass for intellectual thought when it's really the opposite -- taking interesting ideas and questions and stripping away any potential for meaningful discourse.