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.