Non Sequitur by Wiley Miller for February 02, 2023

Catch 22: Would someone with a conscience accompany a clamoring billionaire?

I know one billionaire I’d like to see shot into space

Many billionaires have charitable foundations. There are problems with that, because it gives them more power than they deserve. People think that Bill Gates is a super genius, but maybe he’s not. Until recently, people thought that Musk was a super genius. Maybe it would be better if charities got money some other way.

Conscience?? CONSCIENCE?? What weird kind of requirement is THAT??

Perfect

Yeah, they have to pick up after themselves!!!

HAPPY GROUNDHOG DAY

Millionaires couldn’t fit a conscience on a spacecraft. No room.

Be careful “conscience” isn’t divided into two words, “con science,” as it seems to be fashionable on Earth these days.

They’ll fit right in. “And, for an instant, she stared directly into those soft blue eyes and knew, with an instinctive mammalian certainty, that the exceedingly rich were no longer even remotely human.” ― William Gibson, Count Zero. 1986

Remember when TV had “standards”?

I am so much better than those awful billionaires. It makes me feel better when I shop in the supermarket.

What do God and Elon Musk have in common?

God doesn’t think he’s Elon

Another form of discrimination. Judging people based on their income. There are good people and bad people in all income levels.

good luck with that, we humans can get really determined when we put our minds to it. :J

Lot of raw envy going on here.

Just because you have a conscience doesn’t mean you’re not evil. Most can rationalize the crimes they commit

Sorry Elon, you’re out.

I don’t think any billionaires will get in anytime soon.

In other words: nosociopaths.

In the current climate, only a sociopath could do what it takes to become a billionaire in new money, and those born billionaires in old money are raised to be sociopaths.

Bob Hope and Bing Crosby could get in.Billionaires,and Bing liked horses.

Great thinking Lars!

not much fun reading some of these comments. except “Bing liked horses”

There are theories that life on Mars resides underground to escape the harsh atmospheric conditions. If so, could they have destroyed their planet the way we’re destroying ours?

And, it’s too bad we don’t have billionaires looking to populate the moon.

They don’t hang around with people like that.

Elon should be in then. The need for free speech is the highest form of having a conscious!!!!

Mars “…keep(s) out the riffraff?” Mars enforces a closed border? Man they are more advanced than we are.

They already have a team working on an AI-enabled conscience for the unconscionable wealthy. :) :(

So, Mars is just Risa with a cloaking device.

He’s pretty uppity for an alien that just flew out of a sewage pipe!

Gates and Buffet might be exceptions, but most billionaires appear to be very insecure and disparate for attention.

I think you’ll need to go back in time…way back.

Linguistic musing: “Species” is, like “deer” and “aircraft”, a word that’s the same for both singular and plural. I wonder which was intended in Panel 1.

Only the unconscious…

Absolutely stupendous, Wiley Miller!

Explain the correlation of wealth and morality or lack there of. Was Henry Ford successful from the get go? No. But he didn’t quit. Get a clue.

sorry elon