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[Bobby Isosceles]

You'd probably have to undergo a strict licensing exam in order to have the manual steering column installed on your Google Autocar for use only on non-freeway traffic. Human operated cars will become a leisure/luxury item, and rich people will buy up huge tracts of land in order to build private race tracks and exclusive driving clubs.

If you think about it, wealth has always been about purchasing the right to resist change. When we switched from hunting and gathering to agriculture, the right to hunt was reserved for kings and lords. The rich are equestrian in a world which has no room for hosss. The rich can have assistants rather than be directly contactable. Even in ancient Rome, the most wealthy patrician families kept this veneer of living in pre-Republican times, maintaining weird and esoteric rituals that were remnants of Bronze Age practices. (cf. Carmen Salieri)

[Ben-San]

If you think about it, wealth has always been about purchasing the right to resist change. When we switched from hunting and gathering to agriculture, the right to hunt was reserved for kings and lords. The rich are equestrian in a world which has no room for hosss. The rich can have assistants rather than be directly contactable. Even in ancient Rome, the most wealthy patrician families kept this veneer of living in pre-Republican times, maintaining weird and esoteric rituals that were remnants of Bronze Age practices. (cf. Carmen Salieri)

Wealth has also been about purchasing the right to change before others. Going back to the hoss and the Romans, the rich also had hosss before there was room for hosss - when they were a luxury that were only useful for going somewhere fast or riding in combat, before they were useful as work animals. The rich got cars before they were a necessity, phones before they were a necessity, computers and cell phones before they were a necessity.

You're not wrong, of course, it stretches in both directions - but it might be more accurate to say that being rich is about purchasing the right to the lifestyle you choose rather than the lifestyle you need.

[doomglobe]

I needed to watch this to scratch the itch that strip left. Now that I have, I hope Robert Loggia can do Ramses' voice in the animated series.

[wombat]

Ben-san!

[ianmalcolm2]

Off topic, perhaps, but it seems as if the ol 'Stad has all but entirely given up on the character twitters. A shame, if only because it's another thing with potential that just didn't happen.

[Victoria Waterfield]

Just a reminder that it's now been over a month since the last Achewood cartoon.

I'll probably be back in another month with a very similar post.

[AugustWest]

Just a reminder that it's now been over a month since the last Achewood cartoon.

I'll probably be back in another month with a very similar post.

Yes, but think of the soda.

[Carlos del Vaca]

Onstad should just work up the Penny-Teodor wedding finale strip and be done with it.

[jaydub]

I'll probably be back in another month with a very similar post.

Feel free to stick around in the meantime, bust Inev's chops, and tell Ash what a low fellow he is.

[jaydub]

They give you a white shirt with long sleeves
Tied around you're back, you're treated like thieves
Drug you up because they're lazy
It's too much work to help a crazy

[ianmalcolm2]

The pile of discontinued plot threads exceeds Olympus in height. I wonder what it feels like to be an Onstad, pushing a Sisyphean clump of discarded papers up a mountain of his own making, drunk and sweaty and yelling something about organic small-batch birch beer.

[wombat]

You know, I'd forgotten that we got some new strips for a bit there. Just as well I guess.

[AKKOLADE]

At least the current pause is because Onstad got a real job and not just because he's the guy who sucks

[wombat]

Pause, yeah. That's what it is. A pause.

[pmcd9]

Yeah, making craft soda, that's a real job.