2011-03-03
Explanation
This comic presents a Venn diagram titled "Every Problem on Earth in One Graph." The left circle (red) represents "People who can financially afford to contemplate the moment beyond now," and the right circle (blue) represents "People who would do so given the opportunity." The two circles barely overlap.
The joke makes a pointed observation about a fundamental mismatch in human society: those who have the wealth and security to engage in long-term thinking (the privileged) largely don't bother, while those who would genuinely think about the future and work to improve things (the motivated and thoughtful) often lack the financial resources to do so. The tiny overlap suggests that very few people are both able and willing to plan for the future, which the comic presents as the root cause of essentially all of humanity's problems. It's a concise, cynical commentary on inequality, apathy, and the structural barriers to meaningful progress.