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WCDT: 2756-2760 (28 July-1 August 2014) Weekly Comic Discussion Thread

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NilsO:
My assumption was that Hanners could not afford her apartment, therapy, medication, and nice clothes without some financial support from her parents. She got the CoD job later in the series. True, she counted things and did accounting fraud research for her mother (and got paid for that), but we have no indication she did that as a full-time job. The financial support from her mother might be camouflaged as a consultancy fee, but probably well above the real market value.

EDIT: Besides, her OCD issues makes it impossible for her to have a full-time job. Sometimes, she does not sleep for several days. At other times, she falls asleep wherever she is. Her phobias also contribute to her problems, I am impressed she is able to do a good part-time job at CoD. I guess the support and understanding from her friends and colleagues helps a lot. I guess most parents who have a child with physical or mental problems try to support them financially as best they can, even after they become adults.

Hanners may also own shares in ECTech, or be the beneficiary of a trust fund set up for her, or have some other means of financial income.

judemorrigan:

--- Quote from: Barmymoo on 31 Jul 2014, 04:26 ---I agree, Hanners almost certainly supports herself. She did get money from her mum, but that was as a paid employee not as a handout. I find it quite bizarre that people think a woman in her twenties would be supported by her parents as a default - I know a lot of people are in that position, but Hanners isn't. She's got at least one job and we've seen her working two others as well.

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I don't think it's that people assume that a woman in her twenties would be supported by her parents as a default.  I think it's that people assume that a woman in her twenties with billionaire parents would get at least a measure of financial support from her parents as a default.  Basically, I'd expect her to have come into a big honking trust fund when she came of age.

snubnose:
Uh, this is a comic.

Its NOT realistic.

A child of billionaires will NOT care for itself because:

(a) The parents will want the child to take over their business, thus it will get first class education at places like Havard.

(b) The child needs 100% private security services 100% of the time, just like for example famous Hollywood stars. There IS a reason such stars earn millions per movie - its because otherwise they could neither afford the insane house prices in Hollywood nor the necessary private protection.

As a rule - the really rich people are born rich and die rich, and only get richer and richer in between.

Akima:
I hope E-C Technology didn't build and/or operate the robot jail.

On shaking hands; Momo has a plastic skin, but May is rocking the naked metal look, complete with potential germ-filled crevices in her hands.

I imagine Hannermom having her own private airforce, as well as her platoons of elite mercenaries. Possibly submarines too; it has the Bond-villain vibe. Hannerdad prefers not to get his hands dirty, but takes care of orbital surveillance, and bombardment. Oh, and killbots. I have always assumed that anyone foolish enough to threaten Hanners would regret it very much, very quickly. What, you think that a stealth airship isn't permanently on station over Northampton?

J:
may has exposed joints, which suggests no skin (except for maybe on her face), but given that it's a cheap government issue shell, i'd expect her to be mostly plastic, rather than metal.

that said, a robot who's out & about in the world should have almost as many opportunities to pick up surface germs as a humans, & would probably wash their hands less frequently.

then again, trying to apply rationality & logic to hannelore's phobias is probably missing the point by a little bit.

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