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Post by Gotolei on Oct 19, 2018 7:29:14 GMT
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Post by ctso74 on Oct 19, 2018 13:25:12 GMT
It really makes one wonder, which socioeconomic box would the Court fit in. Technocratic command economy?
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Post by ohthatone on Oct 19, 2018 13:27:04 GMT
If Smitty needed a back up plan, that would suggest his ability stopped working in which playing the lottery would work about as well as any of us playing.
It amuses me that this comic comes when a major US lottery has reached one of the biggest jackpots ever so many of us are having "if I win" dreams (I wonder how much I could pay Tom to animate GC?).
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Post by madjack on Oct 19, 2018 14:26:22 GMT
It really makes one wonder, which socioeconomic box would the Court fit in. Technocratic command economy? When you have a robot slave labour force that produces all consumable needs and makes anything else to order, it's probably less of an economy than just a procurement and supply chain. It'd be more interesting to find out how that supply chain interacts with the 'real' world, and where the raw materials come from etc. The Court doesn't seem fussy with money (see: Traveller), so they presumably have some means of external finance. Owning advanced tech patents like in Men In Black comes to mind, or just playing the markets? |
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Post by Per on Oct 19, 2018 14:55:53 GMT
Maybe they run a service consolidating filler comic stub threads into megathreads? I hear there's a lot of money in that
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Post by tustin2121 on Oct 19, 2018 16:23:02 GMT
The first thing that popped to mind when I saw this question was "He probably loses the lottery all the time to make up for all the luck he's taking up elsewhere."
But then I remembered, aside from that one time when he was stabbed in the chest, his luck ability doesn't seem to work that way, and that I'm confusing his luck ability with Fluke's luck powers from the Young Protectors comic.
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Post by Eversist on Oct 19, 2018 19:35:51 GMT
Hah, let's not make this A Thing TM. Per's just makin' a reoccurring joke. Per, next time just jump on making the first thread!  Edit: Edited/deleted posts now make this make no sense. Ah well. |
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Post by Angry Individual on Oct 19, 2018 20:28:48 GMT
I honestly always assumed the Court did less-than-savory things in order to procure their funding.
They seem like the type of organization to give countries powerful weapons in exchange for money.
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Post by liminal on Oct 19, 2018 23:18:43 GMT
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Post by dramastix on Oct 19, 2018 23:21:13 GMT
And cookies to pyradonis for nailing this question! I thought I'd recognized it... |
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Post by Zox Tomana on Oct 20, 2018 1:36:24 GMT
The first thing that popped to mind when I saw this question was "He probably loses the lottery all the time to make up for all the luck he's taking up elsewhere." But then I remembered, aside from that one time when he was stabbed in the chest, his luck ability doesn't seem to work that way, and that I'm confusing his luck ability with Fluke's luck powers from the Young Protectors comic. Except that, to his point of view, he thought it was lucky to be stabbed in the chest because it meant Parley wasn't, so... even there his preternatural luck holds up... even to the point of it having happened in a scenario in which he could be healed. |
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Post by madjack on Oct 20, 2018 10:41:02 GMT
The words "Bletchley Park" come firmly to mind here. |
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Post by pyradonis on Oct 20, 2018 12:17:55 GMT
And cookies to pyradonis for nailing this question! I thought I'd recognized it... Oh boy, yes!
Regarding the Court's economy, it seems you pay with time (taking a train AND a horse carriage just to get a haircut!), and being constantly surveiled...
I think the "backup plan" refers to in case he will leave the Court and live elsewhere.
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Post by todd on Oct 20, 2018 12:38:09 GMT
I honestly always assumed the Court did less-than-savory things in order to procure their funding. They seem like the type of organization to give countries powerful weapons in exchange for money. I don't know if the Court would go that far, though given much of the shadowy behavior it's demonstrated, I wouldn't rule it out. |
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