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Four-panel black-and-white comic. Panel 1: a dark round character with a smug look holds hands with a lighter blushing round character, hearts floating above. Panel 2: the light one, teary, says "SWEETIE? BABE, WHAT'S HAPPEN-ING??" and "SOME-THING'S WRONG. I... I CAN'T." The dark one says "WAIT-". Panel 3: the dark one shrinks and drifts away saying "I... LOVE YOU..." while the light one wails: "NO! WAIT! YOU HAVE…

Productivity and Wages: A Tragic Love Story

A heartbreak comic uses two lovers drifting apart to show the productivity-wages gap that opened in the 1970s, the economy Xennials grew up into.

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Four-panel black-and-white comic. Panel 1: a dark round character with a smug look holds hands with a lighter blushing round character, hearts floating above. Panel 2: the light one, teary, says "SWEETIE? BABE, WHAT'S HAPPEN-ING??" and "SOME-THING'S WRONG. I... I CAN'T." The dark one says "WAIT-". Panel 3: the dark one shrinks and drifts away saying "I... LOVE YOU..." while the light one wails: "NO! WAIT! YOU HAVE…

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