Hatarakanai Futari - Vol. 28 Ch. 1829 - What Is Money?

[MangaDex]

 

[JumboWheat01]

"What is money?" doesn't have the same feel as "What is love?"

 

[TheOmnivert]

Ishii and gang are so sweet, I'm crine🥹🥹

 

[musashigundoh]

Well that was a change of mood

 

[SergeantFrog]

Man this manga is so good

 

[REMasher]

Well that was emotional.

 

[pink_rabbit]

A very thoughtful chapter that I want to know the answer too

 

[zatchkim]

Very grounded answer, as expected from Mamoru

 

[chabermaca]

It's chapters like this that remind me how good of a job author does writing. It's a very real portrayal of child neglect without it feeling cheap or gratuitous. And it's not overtly depressing, either.

 

[moneng85]

We all need Ishii in our lives

 

[Alcion]

Unfortunately, kid, you still wont know what money is. But you'll know what debt is.

 

[BCS]

Unfortunately, kid, you still wont know what money is. But you'll know what debt is.

Debt is just inverse money so if you know what debt is you know what money is

 

[Edixo]

"What is money? Well, in short, it's something that makes the world we live in possible. You see that building over there? A single, very dedicated human could possibly build that in its lifetime on its own. However, if everyone had to build their own houses that way, there would never be time for much else. So, for humans to be able to do such things easily, we had to specialize. Specialize means that you become good at a specific thing, like your parents have done with their jobs. Some people become fishermen, some people become chair-makers, and so on. If the fisherman needs a chair, he could provide the chair-maker with fish in exchange, that way the fisherman can get chairs without having to learn how to make them. However, the chair-maker doesn't always need fish. So what does the fisherman do if he needs a chair but can't get one for his fish? This is where money comes in. Money became an intermediary - a middle-man - for bartering. The fisherman could exchange his fish for money from someone who needed fish, and then exchange the money for a chair. Since money could be used to barter for, well, everything, it made it so much easier for people to specialize in a variety of things. However, for money to actually be considered a thing you could barter with, it had to be worth something in itself. So people had to agree on something that most saw as having worth, which is called being valuable. What gives something value has been discussed since the dawn of money, but many people settled on gold and silver - both metals which are rare, shiny, and easy to work with, physical properties that everyone could see and feel, which made it work as a store of value. This worked for thousands of years, then someone had the idea that carrying around all that gold and silver was extremely heavy, so they began making pieces of paper that promised the bearer a set amount of gold and silver - that way they could carry many tonnes worth of the metal all at once simply by having these slips of paper. This paper is called currency, and was used to represent a value of money. This worked for a while, until the paper makers began making more slips of paper than there were actual metal in their vaults. Then they began not even printing pieces of paper, but rather just push a button to make a number on a fancy computer somewhere increase. Nowadays, none of the currencies represents any gold or silver, but it used to represent oil for a while, which also worked to a degree. But we live in difficult times, so it's unsure if that's even the case anymore. The bottom line is that the pieces of paper and numbers on a screen that your parents stress about makes you able to eat, study, and sleep with a roof over your head, and if we didn't have them, this city that's around us would collapse after a while. You can study and philosophize about money if you want, just take care to not end up a smelly loser who has to beg his friends for rent money."

 

[totallytotally]

"What is money? Well, in short, it's something that makes the world we live in possible. You see that building over there? A single, very dedicated human could possibly build that in its lifetime on its own. However, if everyone had to build their own houses that way, there would never be time for much else. So, for humans to be able to do such things easily, we had to specialize. Specialize means that you become good at a specific thing, like your parents have done with their jobs. Some people become fishermen, some people become chair-makers, and so on. If the fisherman needs a chair, he could provide the chair-maker with fish in exchange, that way the fisherman can get chairs without having to learn how to make them. However, the chair-maker doesn't always need fish. So what does the fisherman do if he needs a chair but can't get one for his fish? This is where money comes in. Money became an intermediary - a middle-man - for bartering. The fisherman could exchange his fish for money from someone who needed fish, and then exchange the money for a chair. Since money could be used to barter for, well, everything, it made it so much easier for people to specialize in a variety of things. However, for money to actually be considered a thing you could barter with, it had to be worth something in itself. So people had to agree on something that most saw as having worth, which is called being valuable. What gives something value has been discussed since the dawn of money, but many people settled on gold and silver - both metals which are rare, shiny, and easy to work with, physical properties that everyone could see and feel, which made it work as a store of value. This worked for thousands of years, then someone had the idea that carrying around all that gold and silver was extremely heavy, so they began making pieces of paper that promised the bearer a set amount of gold and silver - that way they could carry many tonnes worth of the metal all at once simply by having these slips of paper. This paper is called currency, and was used to represent a value of money. This worked for a while, until the paper makers began making more slips of paper than there were actual metal in their vaults. Then they began not even printing pieces of paper, but rather just push a button to make a number on a fancy computer somewhere increase. Nowadays, none of the currencies represents any gold or silver, but it used to represent oil for a while, which also worked to a degree. But we live in difficult times, so it's unsure if that's even the case anymore. The bottom line is that the pieces of paper and numbers on a screen that your parents stress about makes you able to eat, study, and sleep with a roof over your head, and if we didn't have them, this city that's around us would collapse after a while. You can study and philosophize about money if you want, just take care to not end up a smelly loser who has to beg his friends for rent money."

Missed the point of the chapter. Also, line breaks sweet fucking christ.

 

[malagigi_encantatore]

Marx, Adam Smith and what - keynes?

 

[Quarterdane]

"What is money?"
"We just don't know."

❔
💵

 

[justanothermanganerd]

honestly bit of a whiff for the build up

 

[v.roderick]

The poor men laugh but admit they don't know.

The poorest scream in anguish with their possessions and debt, always hounded by money saying "don't end up like those who can freely laugh and enjoy life."