They both start with $20, and there's a box, and one trollface sells the box to the other trollface for $30. So then in the third panel, as you can plainly see, the trollface on the left has $50, represented by a green smudge, and the other trollface has $10 of debt, represented by a nearly identical green smudge. They both shout "Infinite money!" because they think the creation of debt -- a system of promised future servitude enforced by state violence -- is equivalent to both of them ending up with more money.
"Problem?" it says next to a trollface, indicating ironically that this transaction is actually not problematic.
I don't understand what is supposed to be happening here and the troll faces annoy me. Someone explain.
They both start with $20, and there's a box, and one trollface sells the box to the other trollface for $30. So then in the third panel, as you can plainly see, the trollface on the left has $50, represented by a green smudge, and the other trollface has $10 of debt, represented by a nearly identical green smudge. They both shout "Infinite money!" because they think the creation of debt -- a system of promised future servitude enforced by state violence -- is equivalent to both of them ending up with more money.
"Problem?" it says next to a trollface, indicating ironically that this transaction is actually not problematic.
Ok so there is debt involved, almost makes sense now. Why is this so confusingly made lol