Random Thought Of The Day #611

Day 611

You know what always bothered me about comic books?

The way that they have all this tech stuff that nobody EVER decides to market to the general public in order to make money to sustain themselves. Or to raise the standard of living across the globe and REALLY change the world.

I mean... Planetary got this right. The Fantastic Four analogues in that were basically the bad guys. Precisely for this reason. They hoarded their technology in order to basically run the world in secret.

We're stuck dealing with expensive energy costs and these guys are running around with faster-than-light speed spaceships and shit that run on fucking magic beans or something. It never made any sense. Fuck... the Fantastic Four built a whole replica Earth! And I still gotta pay $4 a gallon for gas?

And how the FUCK did the X-Men afford to re-build the mansion every 6 months when someone else blows it up? And how the hell do they re-build it so quick each time? Who the fuck can you contract to build a Danger Room with hard-light projection training facilities? Was it the company that did the Tupac hologram at Cochella?

And there's more fucking robots and androids running around loaded with high-functioning AI and yet NONE of them manage to market that stuff? They can build mutant-hunting killer gigantic robots that run on... some other sort of magic energy source, I guess... but nobody ever thought to optimize manufacturing methods with them or anything like that?

I just wish someone would actually explore how that tech would impact the world.

I mean... Doctor Doom can have an endless supply of Doombots, but never thought to take over the world with his technological prowess and have Latveria become an economic powerhouse by marketting and selling all his tech stuff once they've been converted to every-day home use appliances? Start by selling Doombots to rich people as 24/7 in-home servants and support staff, bring down the production costs and program them as teachers, nannies, healthcare professionals or anything else. Within 10 years, the manufacturing costs are dirt cheap and the product is affordable to most middle-income families. And all of a sudden, you're closing in on the US and China and Japan for economic superiority. And that's just with 1 product. Market all the other shit you got in your patent portfolio and within 15 years, you ARE the only Superpower in the world. Start acquiring other companies and take over the world.

But he might need to change the name from Doombot to something else. Not exactly the best brand building plan there. Doesn't scream "we're the future of the service industry and we're going to make your lives easier and better!!"...

And hey, worst case? Leave a backdoor in the programming and if you CAN'T take over the world with economic might, just flip on the hidden programmed subroutine in the software and turn on the "kill everyone who does not bow to Doom" programming.