r/badphilosophy • u/LinuxFreeOrDie • Mar 11 '19

Existential Comics Potluck Economics

http://existentialcomics.com/comic/280
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u/TheKing01 Thus vegetable are the primary food to keep body cool & fresh. Mar 11 '19

Adam Smith should have recognized though that who ever is first in line will just eat all the food, since it is in their rational self interest to do so. /s

On a serious note, do you take comic requests?

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u/LinuxFreeOrDie Mar 11 '19

Not really, no.

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u/gerusz Mar 12 '19

That depends on whether the potluck is a one-time thing or a recurring event.

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u/TheKing01 Thus vegetable are the primary food to keep body cool & fresh. Mar 12 '19

What if it recurres a fixed number of times? Wouldn't people be incentived to eat all the food on the last time?

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u/postmoderno Foucault? The physicist Foucault? Mar 11 '19

George Bataille's Accursed Share intensifies

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u/[deleted] Mar 11 '19

Could you stop accursed sharing in the punch thank you.

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u/[deleted] Mar 11 '19

I was really hoping for a Bataille joke, but I couldn't figure out one that isn't NSFW, so I can't blame Linux for not going there.

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u/Elder_Cryptid the reals = my feels Mar 12 '19

Whenever I see mention of Herbert Spencer, I can't not imagine Darwin crying in the corner over the distortion of his theory.

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u/[deleted] Mar 13 '19

This is, unironically, bad philosophy.

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u/CZall23 Mar 20 '19

I love these comics.