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==Explanation== | ==Explanation== | ||
− | Many people have shared [[Cueball]]'s experience of seeing someone else make | + | Many people have shared [[Cueball]]'s experience of seeing someone else make profit from an idea that they themselves had. This comic plays with the thought of what would happen if {{w|intellectual property}} thinking was taken to an extreme, and if companies or people were more keen on "setting things right" than money. The title text is an extension of the comic with increasingly extreme thinking. |
− | In reality, having a great idea alone | + | In reality, having a great idea alone of course does not create a profitable business; there must generally be an enormous amount of work and effort (not to mention risk-taking) put in to create a business from scratch, popularize it, and keep it standing. Cueball, having done none of this, would probably not deserve close to the "30% cut" he claims even if intellectual property did work the way it is presented here. |
− | The delivery | + | The delivery guy is from {{w|FedEx}}. [[960: Subliminal]] is about hidden messages in their logo. |
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==Transcript== | ==Transcript== | ||
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:[Last panel set slightly lower than the rest.] | :[Last panel set slightly lower than the rest.] | ||
− | :[Cueball is in front of an open box full of cash, with cash in his hand. A FedEx delivery guy is on the other side of the box with his | + | :[Cueball is in front of an open box full of cash, with cash in his hand. A FedEx delivery guy is on the other side of the box with his little electronic signing thing.] |
==Trivia== | ==Trivia== | ||
− | This comic was originally called [[827: Business Idea]] | + | *This comic was originally called [[827: Business Idea]] but Randall renamed it to fix a conflict on xkcd when he released [[1721: Business Idea]] about five years later (as in the comic). |
+ | **This comic was thus also renamed on this page. | ||
+ | **It gave quite some turbulence on the release day as can be seen in the [[1721: Business Idea#Trivia|trivia section]] of the new comic. | ||
{{comic discussion}} | {{comic discussion}} |