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The Enrollment Meeting

By Staff Fabricator

Single-panel cartoon of a 401(k) enrollment meeting in a break room. A cheerful recordkeeper presenter points at a slide titled 'The Magic of Compounding,' slide 4 of 186. The audience is asleep, on phones, doing a crossword, or crawling toward the exit. The advisor checks his watch, the recordkeeper rep dozes beside a 'Free Pens' sign with one pen, and the plan sponsor is slipping out the door. A man in the front row has a beard down to his belt, a cobweb joins two chairs, torn calendar pages pile on the floor, and a houseplant has grown across the ceiling. — “Now this is one of my favorite slides. Can everyone see what's happening here? Let me explain…”
AI-generated satirical illustration

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