Inheritance
Inheritance
[Ponytail, White Hat, Megan, and Cueball are playing a board game. There are drinks on the table. Ponytail is writing something]
Ponytail: Let's see...I got 31, you have 28, 35 for you, and- Cueball: -I've got 10,019. Ponytail: *Sigh* Cueball: Hey, add another 20 to everyone, on me! White Hat: I hate this .
[Caption beneath the panel:] No one wants to play board games with me ever since I inherited 4,000,000 victory points from my grandfather.

This comic is in reference to strategy board games , which often score players on some type of point system based on a variety of possible achievements. The joke in this comic is that Cueball has a massive sum of points that were not scored in the current game but rather handed down from his grandfather. Board games do not normally include an inheritance from previous sessions [ citation needed ] , in contrast to real life where some people become wealthy by inheriting vast sums of money from ancestors. Such inheritances tend to lead to 'successes' in life for those who have done little to earn their wealth.
Cueball offers to distribute a trifling fraction of his points to the other players, teasing them, but he will still have an insurmountable advantage. Despite his 'generosity', no one wants to play a game that they have no chance of winning.  The value of his score, 10,019, seems to indicate that he "earned" 19 points during the course of the game (less than his competitors) and then added 10,000 from his 'inheritance'.
The comic may be a reference to economic simulation board games like Monopoly , which was created as a critique to capitalism; in this case, no one can win the game against people who start out with a large amount of accumulated wealth. See also the ' Small Loan of a Million Dollars ' trope of a profile in which the author or subject discusses the simple tricks they used to retire early or buy a house, often involving a hurried admission of financial assistance from a family member.
The title text asks Cueball if he has any moral qualms over the source of these points, then indicates his grandfather's fortune was made through factory farming in the farm-themed board game Agricola . Factory farming is a broad term for applying mass-production techniques to agriculture, treating both plants and animals as commodities to be processed as efficiently as possible. These techniques are condemned, at least in some circles, as being cruel to livestock, in addition to having serious environmental and land-use implications, among other criticisms. The implication is that Cueball's grandfather somehow managed to introduce an immoral and/or socially harmful mechanic into a board game, greatly enriching himself and his heirs. This echoes another concern about inherited wealth: that the source of the money may have been unethical, but the heirs still get to enjoy the advantages, without considering themselves accountable for the harm. Cueball brushes off this criticism with the claim that the change was inevitable, which is a common response to analogous real-life concerns. The game Agricola was previously mentioned in 696: Strip Games and 778: Scheduling .
[Ponytail, White Hat, Megan, and Cueball are playing a board game. There are drinks on the table. Ponytail is writing something]
Ponytail: Let's see...I got 31, you have 28, 35 for you, and- Cueball: -I've got 10,019. Ponytail: *Sigh* Cueball: Hey, add another 20 to everyone, on me! White Hat: I hate this .
[Caption beneath the panel:] No one wants to play board games with me ever since I inherited 4,000,000 victory points from my grandfather.
