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Explanation
This comic explores anxieties about AI and automation replacing human artists. A child asks their parent whether they should learn to draw, since by the time they grow up, machines will make "breakfast, not art." The parent first tries to be reassuring, noting that human artists won't go away entirely. But then the parent draws a parallel to historical artisanship — pointing out that artisan skills didn't disappear in the 19th century; they just became irrelevant to mass production and survived only as expensive luxury goods for the wealthy. This is clearly not the inspirational message the parent intended, and the child finds it depressing rather than motivational. In the final panel, the parent asks the "computer" for a second attempt at being inspiring, implying the parent was getting their parenting advice from an AI all along — adding another layer of irony about human dependence on machines even while trying to defend human creativity.