Funny strip.
But on a deeper level the digiteck first world is in population decline and the world will be taken over by the increasing low tech third World which is still breeding prolifically. think 6 kids for each Muslim woman.
Who will do the electronic derivative swaps defaults that collpase and inflict poverty and hopelessness and intertility on the formerly delveloped world then?
The coffee bean growers will have cbeans but there will be no starbucks addicts to sell them to anymore.And thei bean growers' smart phones will go blank one by one.
Sometimes Dilbert resonates on many levels.