Wizard of Id Classics by Parker and Hart for August 22, 2023

Well, that ‘accounts’ for the credit card industry!!!

According to Albert Einstein, the most powerful force in the universe is compound interest.

Thus, the expression “Wage Slaves”…….

I notice that he says “Free the slaves” rather than “abolish slavery”. Many slaves were freed from slavery before slavery itself was abolished.

Easy credit, higher prices, bigger debt, static wages, restless sleep.

The company store.

Who knew Evil could be so short?

My mother had “charge accounts” at a couple of big department stores in Montreal. I remember the thrill, as a teenager, of being allowed to use it. With VERY strictly defined limits!

You load 16 tons, what do you get?

Another day older and deeper in debt

St. Peter, don’t you call me ‘cause I can’t go

I owe my soul to the company store

- Merle Travis

Rather progressive of him ….

Perhaps. But sad, if today they’d probably have cancelled this strip today.

Gen Zers think MLK freed the slaves.