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Tell It With Comics — The Value of a Person pt. 1

A comic discussing the net-worth (value) of people.

Aug 14, 2021

Panel One — A multistory mall with an open atrium and escalators prominent. People are shopping and over their heads are luminescent numbers in either red or green. Two characters look over the crowd.
Narrator: In Daniel Suarez’s Freedom™, a scene plays out in a shopping mall where two characters use augmented reality and easily accessed financial data to see the net worth of shoppers walking past.
“…glowing numbers hovering over the heads of all the shoppers moving past them. Dollar amounts

Aug 14, 2021

Tell It With Comics — The Value of a Dollar pt. 2

Part two discussing the implications of value.

Aug 14, 2021

<<2Page>>

Examples
of expertise and
knowledge being
accepted based on
“societal pricing”
are seen all
the time.

How much
value would you
place on the
advice being
given freely in
the subway?

Compare that
to a lecture given at
a university: If it’s
the same advice,
is it suddenly
worth more?

We rely on
social norms and cues
to help us navigate
every day.
But perhaps we’re
missing out by not
taking the time
to question why
we value what
we do?

Likewise,
w

Aug 14, 2021

Tell It With Comics — The Value of a Dollar pt. 1

A comic discussing the actual value of a dollar bill, and how to think about value.

Aug 14, 2021

<<1Page>>
Did you
know there’s
a collector market
for dollar bills with
unique serial
numbers?

Take two
dollar bills
and set them
side by side.

and also for
repeat numbers,
or if they have a
star at the end
(“Star Notes”).

or if the numbers
are the same no
matter if read from
left or right,

Certain bills
are more valued if
they have especially
low numbers
(000000001
could be worth
$15,000 (Strain)),

So let’s
assume one
of your two bills
is a collector
dol

Aug 14, 2021

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