80 coins might still be profit for them, but if they’re already producing more high quality wheels than they can easily sell, it’s only going to reinforce their current problem. Hopefully they can either find a way to reduce costs or diversify into something like their cart design (or guillotines
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This is a problem that literally wouldn't matter under communism because making exactly the correct amount of unbreakable wheels that are needed and then not making any ever again would actually be incredibly beneficial to society.
Of course, capitalism's solution is to not fucking do that and instead to break everything.
Unbreakable wheels would be pretty neat, but I don’t think they’ve actually invented them - just significantly stronger ones.
They aren’t even wheels that work for every purpose: they’re probably great for pull/push carts, but a metal hoop isn’t going to have enough traction for a wheel that’s designed to actually be propelled by an engine, so other advances in technology will undoubtedly leave them needing to produce other styles of reinforced wheels.
Regardless, yeah, if they could eliminate their survival profit motive and plan only the level of wheel production actually needed at close to cost, they wouldn’t be stuck with their current situation. But that seems to be the point of the comic as a whole in the end, IMO.
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