That forty dollars goes to good use -- it allows the flower shop owner to buy a forty-dollar sculpted soap set from the soapery next door. The soapmaker will go on to buy some paper flowers with that same money. Then both of them will pay income tax on their earnings, which will go toward paying a defense contractor to build bombs for military drones to drop onto various strangers. It’s all part of living in an interconnected community

Drawing: side effects may include the original malady

My doctor said that he wasn’t sure if the pills were doing any good, but they sure weren’t hurting anything, he said, so why not keep taking them? $40 copay worth of pills every month, for two and a half years so far, and he’s not sure if they’re doing any good.


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