This is an AI-generated cartoon with the prompt: ‘Horizontal editorial cartoon in pen-and-ink with strong cross-hatching, stark textures, and allegorical tone. A jewelry shop display case holds a single giant grain of rice under bright spotlights, price tag ‘₱60/kg.’ A Filipino everyman family in patched clothes presses against the glass, their faces tired and desperate. Behind the counter, a smug clerk in barong tends to the rice as if it were a diamond, while security guards block the poor family. At the bottom of the case, broken rice is swept into a trash bin. A cracked peso symbol forms the pedestal base. Critical, biting, darkly satirical.’
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