ah the people that hate capitalism and have a weird opinion that treats capitalism as is we are on some late stage cancer
here is the idea, her MONEY is given by her parents, if her parents doesn’t give her a big allowance she can get more by sacrificing her only other expenses, she wants to buy some otaku merch that can be quite expensive in japan, i was the same in school and high school
it literally has nothing to do with your hatred for capitalism but with the MC wanting some otaku merch, it’s not some ugly symptom about your imaginary capitalist late stage cancer