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This comic explores the idea of automation replacing human workers -- but with a twist about what the automated replacement actually does.
In the first panel, a boss informs an employee named Jensen that he has been replaced by a robot. The robot explains that Jensen is, in fact, a man named Jensen who was replaced -- and that this happened several years ago. Jensen is confused, asking "what?" and noting that something keeps beeping.
The middle panels reveal the full absurdity: "Jensens" have been automated for several years. The robot once performed Jensen's duties but has now evolved beyond that. When Jensen asks what the robot is doing now, the robot says it is "pretending to work" while actually reading Reddit headlines -- essentially, the robot has replicated the most human aspect of office work: slacking off.
The final panel delivers the punchline. Jensen asks what the "human" is doing, and we learn the human's sole purpose is to scroll to the bottom of Reddit threads. The comic inverts the usual automation anxiety narrative: instead of robots replacing humans to be more productive, the robot has become just as unproductive as a human worker. The deeper joke is that the most authentically "human" behavior -- procrastinating, pretending to work, and mindlessly browsing the internet -- is what the robot has ultimately automated. It suggests that the thing most worth automating about human work might be the parts where we are not actually working.