Midas Gold Prices
King Midas looks at a graph showing gold prices falling as he turns more things (including people) into gold: supply and demand.
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Cartoon by Ben Orlin, Math with Bad Drawings. https://cartoons.mathwithbaddrawings.com/2018-03-27-midas-gold-prices/ (CC BY-NC 4.0)Transcript
[Graph] y-axis: "gold prices"; x-axis: "objects touched" — a decreasing curve
King Midas: "hmm... maybe this is what my financial advisors were warning me about..."