So much for the idea that Snuka doesn’t have a sense of morality. In fact, he’s perfectly able to tell right from wrong – the problem is just that he then proceeds to doing the wrong thing, because he’s drawn to that. He isn’t amoral, he’s immoral – a distinction he understands, although I wouldn’t go as far as saying that it’s a point of pride with him.
Ironically, his ability to acknowledge he is doing wrong even in cases where the wrong thing might be perfectly legal actually means that his sense of morality is superior to that of many people who aren’t technically criminals.
In any case, he solves the team’s problem with their jerseys. And puts it on a solid financial footing for the time being. Since his start-up company (called “Company Name” because he couldn’t even be bothered to change the placeholder in the logo template he pilfered) is newly-founded, its business plan has a lot of room for negative cash-flow in the first three years – only after that point investors might become aware that they’ve put their money into an entity that is 100% buzzwords and 0% product.
As I’m writing this it would be inevitable that Company Name’s pretend business is something AI-related, but I haven’t put that into the actual strip because that would severely date it once the next hype arrives in a few month’s time.
For Marumaru all of this must look like a whole new world, indeed. He was born into a world where you had to be honestly criminal to help yourself to other peoples’ money, now you only need to be dishonest period. Whether he considers all of that a brave new world is another question, of course.
More on Monday.
And this is the other reason why “Throw Snuka at the problem” is a tried and true strategy for this squad.
The universe hating Snuka means you can reliably exploit its tendency to maximize his suffering, but Snuka himself can also be relied upon to take just as much as the universe gives… from Suckers. And even the universe hating Snuka can’t change another universal rule, which is that there’s a Sucker born every minute.
It shows how invaluable (both in the sense that he’s highly useful and in the sense that no one would pay to buy him) Snuka is. He made the stadium through enormous amounts of suffering, he was the one to find their narratively-mandated mentor figure, and hell, he was even useful as mascot bait!