Muse testing... again.

[buildingtheeconomy]

You can't just... come back here and force me back into this!

I have a business to run, you can't just...

Why did you even put me here anyway? I've got important things to do.

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[findatree]

Wait, you're still running your business?

[buildingtheeconomy]

Of course I am. The thneeds are selling like crazy nowadays.

[findatree]

[wait this Once-ler is still selling Thneeds? He must be from a different time]

Just be careful about the trees, okay? You don't want to cut them all down.

[buildingtheeconomy]

Right. I should definitely be careful about the trees and let my business be ruined. Sounds like a great idea.

[findatree]

Your business is going to be ruined anyway once you cut down the last tree! Nobody has even heard of your thneed in my time.

[buildingtheeconomy]

...How do I know you're not lying?

[findatree]

You're the one who told me the whole story. About the Lorax, and the animals, and how you lost everything.

[buildingtheeconomy]

...What, did the Lorax send you or something?

Well, there's only one problem with your story - I haven't lost anything and I really don't plan on it so I'm just going to keep turning Truffula Trees into thneeds and you and the Lorax aren't going to stop me!

[findatree]

So you just totally tuned me out when I said all the trees are gone. Well, go ahead and ignore me. When the last tree is dead you'll see you were wrong.

[buildingtheeconomy]

Maybe you and the Lorax need to stop being so paranoid.

I mean, who cares about a few trees?

[findatree]

Paranoid? Dude, I live in a world with no trees! None! Our air and water is polluted. How is any of that paranoia?

And for the record, I care about trees.

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[buildingtheeconomy]

No trees?

That's terrible...

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[buildingtheeconomy]

I'll never make any money without any trees.

[findatree]

[wow this guy is just like O'Hare. Ted tries to remember his Once-ler, but it does suck how far the guy has to fall to become that Once-ler]

I think you're missing the point.

[buildingtheeconomy]

The point?

The point is that without trees I'll never make money.

[findatree]

Uhhh. Without trees, we can't breathe. The animals don't have places to live in. There are no fruits for anyone to eat.

[buildingtheeconomy]

I don't care about any of that. What's important is that without trees there isn't any money.

[findatree]

Wow. So you don't care that you basically ruined an entire valley and hurt all the people living there?

So all those years you were hiding away in your Lerkim was just because you missed money? I don't buy it.

[buildingtheeconomy]

....You're lying aren't you?

I'll bet the Lorax sent you to make me stop. Well you can tell him that he's not going to stop me!

[findatree]

[sigh; guess he'll have to wait fifty years for this guy to get some sense into him]

I hope you like your Lerkim, then. You're gonna be there for a long time.

[buildingtheeconomy]

You're not convincing me, y'know.

[findatree]

Whatever. See you in fifty years.

[buildingtheeconomy]

...What does that even mean?

[findatree]

It means I'm fifty years in your future. I meet you when you're old and a cranky hermit.

[buildingtheeconomy]

That's ridiculous, I'm not going to be a hermit.