At this time (February 13, 2025), MMTed releases Episode 11 within the Second Season of our Manga sequence – The Smith Household and their Adventures with Cash. Have a little bit of enjoyable with it whereas studying Trendy Financial Idea (MMT) and flow into it to those that you assume will profit.
The Smith Household is a middle-class household residing in a metropolis someplace on this planet. The second-generation mother and father are college educated and have skilled occupations. Their two youngsters attend the native public college.
Episode 11 opens with Elisabeth’s father and mom visiting the Smith house.
Instantly, Elizabeth’s father, Tom Jenkins activates the TV as a result of Professor Noitawl is approaching the nationwide finance present.
He tells everybody else to close up as it’s his ‘favorite present’.
Professor Noitawl is pontificating about how the ageing inhabitants will drive the youthful generations to pay extra taxes to make sure the federal government’s ‘debt bomb’ is paid off.
He additionally claims the youthful era are in charge for his or her lack of ability to purchase homes as a result of they spend “all their revenue on smashed avo breakfasts in cafes and iPhones’.
Tom agrees and reacts to Elizabeth’s disdain by claiming the children ought to work tougher and cease having fancy breakfasts and observing their telephones all day.
Kevin can’t assist himself and factors on the precarity of low-wage work that his era faces because the norm, fairly distinct from the prospects that his grandparents needed to take care of – profession work, excessive pay, good advantages, good retirement pensions.
Elizabeth and Kevin level out some forex realities however the grandparents can’t be shifted.
They love Noitawl and his nonsensical economics.
The ensuing dialogue (dispute) canvasses all the main points relating to ageing societies, intergenerational fairness, and the actual challenges governments face when confronted with rising dependency ratios.
Tom’s place and inconsistency is highlighted when he claims that the federal government shouldn’t be using folks and Kevin factors out that simply final week, his grandfather had stated the youth of the nation needs to be compelled to do army service – the employer being the federal government.
When you’ve got any suggestions we are going to admire it, apart from ‘this sucks’.
The manga is accessible in each English and Japanese.
Subsequent episode – Episode 12 – the ultimate on this Season – shall be obtainable on March 13, 2025.
We are going to then take a month’s Manga break earlier than releasing Season 3 the place issues are predicted to get actually fascinating.
A trailer for Season 3 may learn like this:
TRAILER FOR SEASON 3
Who wins the election?
What’s Ryan planning – a whole change of tack?
Will Elizabeth take Ryan again?
What’s going to Professor Noitawl must say concerning the present state of affairs.
The children head to Japan on a college tour.
A customer from Africa will get the children in school pondering.
George Jones will get out of jail and learns what Eva has been as much as within the lambo.
That’s sufficient for as we speak!
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