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Explanation
This comic features a confrontation between a humanities-minded person and a scientist or economist. The scientist is at a blackboard with the equation "maximize f+S=m+e" (representing something like food + sex = money + energy, or a similar reductive formulation) and declares: "You scientists think you can just create an equation for everything, but you can't compress the feeling in your little symbols on a blackboard."
The scientist responds by translating the equation: "That's food + sex + money + productivity. You have rightfully earned the sort of tango." The implication is that the equation actually does capture something meaningful about human motivation and satisfaction.
In the final panel, the original critic asks: "Why am I sad? Is my life 15 to 60 percent entropy?" -- inadvertently using the very mathematical/scientific framework they just criticized to try to understand their own emotional state.
The joke targets the common anti-reductionist complaint that science "can't capture" the richness of human experience. The critic starts by rejecting equations as inadequate for describing feelings, but within moments finds themselves reaching for exactly that kind of quantitative framework to diagnose their own unhappiness. The comic suggests that even people who philosophically oppose reducing life to equations find themselves instinctively thinking in those terms when they want actual answers. It is a gentle satire of the humanities-vs-sciences divide, showing that the critics of reductionism are often closet reductionists when it comes to their own problems.