T-Rex: Capitalism is bad, right? Like, pure capitalism is obviously bad. Pure capitalism is "pay for your own police force if you don't want to be murdered, or pay protection money to mine".
T-Rex: So we socialise them and everyone gets police paid by taxes!
T-Rex: Same with roads, traffic lights, weather services, fire departments, health care if your country is not insane, etc. We use socialism to carve off the hard edges of capitalism.
Dromiceiomimus: But there's still tons of hard edges! Can't afford a house? SORRY, YOU LIVE OUTDOORS NOW. Can't afford to eat? SORRY, STARVATION AHOY.
T-Rex: This is true! This is a problem we, uh, haven't solved.
Utahraptor: I mean, we've tried, right?
T-Rex: Sure! But capitalism has baked into it the idea that being rich SHOULD be better than being poor, because that's supposed to be your motivation to not be poor.
Utahraptor: Is our only option to... SMASH THE STATE??
T-Rex: I was gonna say "work on social change so that 'poor' can be redefined to a higher standard of living and basic decency is guaranteed to all"??
Off panel: It could take generations to overcome entrenched, heavily-funded oppositional political interests.
T-Rex: Forget it; SMASH THE STATE
