Not sure, I wondered if the comic actually was also trying to show the growth of "necessities" over time. Like a car at first was a luxury and not a necessity.

Not sure, I wondered if the comic actually was also trying to show the growth of "necessities" over time. Like a car at first was a luxury and not a necessity. A phone today might be a necessity. And the last strip doesn't even bring up necessities, it makes a case of the difficulty of fighting the system you complain about when being in it, which to me is also a point about necessities. Like one could argue society makes it harder and harder for you to be ethical as time goes on. Making the path of resistance ever so harder and requiring more risk from you. And this can be used as a tool later to justify societies unethical choices. Like, hey, if you can't even be ethical yourself, why do you expect society to be and say we should? And maybe this is the point of the comic?