T-Rex: Oh no!! A mad professor has turned economics, which even ECONOMISTS know is the most dismal of sciences, into a real person! And now she's following me around!
Off panel: 〚small〛 Love is transactional at the chemical level, and likely others
T-Rex: Nooooo
Off panel: 〚small〛 That pumpkin you carved at Hallowe'en and put outside until it rotted could've been donated as food, but instead you chose to put your pleasure above the starvation of others
T-Rex: Friggin' economics. You know what I love about EVERY OTHER SCIENCE, Dromiceiomimus?
Dromiceiomimus: How none of them are economics?
T-Rex: AMONG MANY OTHER THINGS, yes.
Off panel: 〚small〛 Every hour you spend making love costs you the wage you could've produced by selling your labour on a job site
T-Rex: Oh no, you've got one too?
Utahraptor: YEP.
Off panel: 〚small〛 Talking to this friend costs you the opportunity to talk to other friends, who might be having better conversations right now
Off panel: 〚small〛 Your perfect life, which you are not living, robs the world of a better you, who would be a more valuable person
T-Rex and Utahraptor: *sigh*
Off panel: 〚small〛 All relationships can be reduced to trade in which one party tries to profit more than the other, and all people can be reduced to selfish economic actors looking to maximize returns
T-Rex: EXCUSE ME, WE ALREADY SAID *SIGH*
