Peanuts by Charles Schulz for September 21, 2015

I would go with the cheaper competition. It is about time her monopoly was challenged.

Does Snoopy accepts insurance?

Hmmm, not only is the Adviser cheaper, but the advice is both better and more knowledgeable.

Good, Snoopy. Lucy reminds me of a career planning adviser I had in college.

I can hear the animated music as Snoopy builds his booth.

If you don’t speak dog, rates will go up to four cents.

now thats putting your two cents worth in!

Snoopy offers friendly competition. This will make Lucy think about her prices and the quality of her services.

Joe Adviser.

They will both be out of business when they are forced to use an EMR and ICD-10

I take the 2 cent booth.

The look on Lucy’s face in the last panel makes me think her reaction is, “What? You mean my advice isn’t friendly?”

Which it usually isn’t, especially when given to Charlie Brown.

Even if Snoopy can’t talk, giving him a friendly pat on the head would still make you feel a lot better than anything that blowhard Lucy would say.

I’d pay Snoopy $2 instead…

Snoopy could rebrand his booth and name it “Second Opinion.”

The Linus sets up a booth “Deep Thoughts For Free”……

Hm. Tough to make a living!

I give friendly advice for free.

You can have your advice fast, cheap, good; pick any two…

There’s nothing a capitalist hates more than competition…

Go, Snoopy!

@PauljmsnA wide-spread confusion. Capitalism deals with sources and distribution of capital in large and/or capital intensive businesses. With all their five-year-plans, old time communist governments were very capitalistic. Competition is a totally different dimension. The free market speaks to that dimension: free access to try your hand at providing value to the market place and consumer choice. Capitalism and the free market are not necessarily at odds, but in the era of large (tending toward omnipotent) government, playing the game with the socialist or fascist powers that be becomes necessary for corporate survival – and that generally affects larger corporations first. It took me quite some time to come to peace with distributist theory (explicit in GK Chesterton, implied in JRR Tolkien); I simply had to realize I had conflated capitalism (with its fixation with bigness even if free market) with the true free market. We live in an imperfect world, so economic freedom will never make things perfect – but it will work better than unnatural control from any human organization, whether government or business (including the unholy offspring of those two).

Sorry, Lucy. You’re out of business.

Bye now.

xxx

Lucy has been undercut by Snoopy. LMAO!!!

Nice competition. The only problem is that Lucy’s the only one who can actually talk with her customers.

I would pay more than 5 cents for friendly advice.

I can here surfin’ snoopy playing in the background already.

Good move by Snoops!