Kuma Kuma Kuma Bear - Vol. 6 Ch. 55 - Kuma-san gets some Eggs

[Dlroth]

@flannan yeah really like, the orphanage money problem is resolved already, so why do they still have to work for money? This is just straight up child labor.

 

[Nikosgarofola]

@Oeconomist ohhhh. So the first 3 kuma's is the title are in hiragana/Kanji and the last word in the title is in katakana. I feel dumb, I just looked at the translated title. Shouldve known better. I appreciate the info.

 

[flannan]

@Nikosgarofola - all 4 words in the title are written differently, but mean the same thing. First word in is hiragana, second in katakana, third in kanji and the final word is an English word transliterated into katakana.

 

[Simpleton]

Thank you beary much for your hard work.

 

[Trollface800K]

Minor LN detail for those who were wondering why the merchant guild lady had a empty pudding cup.

Spoiler

In the LN, Yuna gave her a pudding before she left for the capitol, but she left before said lady ate it. Hence the confrontation in this chapter

 

[Oeconomist]

@Dlroth, @flannan—

I've discussed the real-world history of child labor in another entry. With that somewhat in mind, let's consider the situation of these orphans.

If they do not work, they will enter into adulthood unable to sustain themselves. If they go to school, then they will be working (with teachers and perhaps school administrators paid as a consequence of the work of these children). It might seem that in school these children could learn to be what are called “knowledge workers”, but this is a pre-industrial society, with comparatively few positions for scientists, for engineers, or even for clerks. The most useful things for them to learn in school are skills such as animal husbandry, food preparation, and small-business operation.

The Bear could hire others, but she is instead helping these children by preparing them for a better future.

 

[flannan]

@Oeconomist - I still think that teaching them some real jobs, like farming, smithing or slaying monsters, would do better for their future than teaching them to work as waiters. That kind of job can only be done while you're young.

 

[Oeconomist]

@flannan—

Show me a child who is only being trained to work as a waiter, and I'll agree that his or time would be better spent. However, I certainly won't agree that waiters don't have real jobs.

 

[Graywing]

I was surprised that she didn't think of building them a school but then I realized that she is gifted and didn't care for the institution. That is kinda sad though. Hopefully she realizes that not every child can look at things like she does and building the orphans a school will help them in the long run. They should be taught that they can rise above their stations in life even if they are in somewhat "medieval" times. The director needs to ask the children when they get to a certain age what they want out of life whether they want to be a adventurer, business owner, etc. I'm not saying that they need to have some fancy schools like the nobles have. They can just to teach them the three R's and maybe some basic fighting tactics. Thanks for the chapter!!!

 

[Avarice221]

Nice easter egg with the song she hums in the last page

 

[Oeconomist]

@Graywing—

You are confusing schooling with something requiring a schoolhouse. Moreover, these children are being schooled in ways that will allow them to rise above what would otherwise be their stations. (And they are being given a chance to learn what they would need to know to operate their own businesses. They are effectively apprentices.)

Essentially, you are trying to fit a template of education from the present day — which template is failing in the present day! — to a preindustrial society.

(By the way, the Mediaeval Era ended about 350 years before the Industrial Age began.)

 

[Graywing]

@Oeconomist I don't see how teaching the children the 3 basics would be harmful. Also yes it maybe from the current age but she has already applied many things from her world to theirs so why would a school change things. We already see that the nobles go to school so why not build one for the orphans. Especially since it looks like the MC does value some social equality. Should they not also have the possibility of becoming scholars or mages? Or is that only possible for the nobles aka the wealthy.

 

[Oeconomist]

@Graywing—

These children will be offered chances to learn and to apply reading, writing, and arithmetic in the course of learning business operations.

And, as I already noted, this world has a very limited demand for what are called “knowledge workers”.

In our own world, a college education typically does not pay for itself (nor would it actually pay for itself if still more of the cost were shifted to taxpayers). First, the pervy idea was inculcated that people with college educations were superior; then the idea was inculcated that people should be lifted from supposed inferiority by giving them college educations (or at least college degrees). The result of pushing-up demand for college education is a great increase in costs; the result of pushing-up the supply of college graduates is a great drop their marginal value. It would be better for most people who receive a college education to take the money and invest it in something else.

Might their be some child in this orphanage with exceptional talent for knowledge work? Sure, and he or she will have at least as good a chance of demonstrating that talent in this context as in a world like our own. In case you hadn't noticed it, our age of nearly universal formal schooling in schoolhouses isn't actually very good at such things.

 

[Graywing]

@Oeconomist I'm one for higher education for all #TeamBernie. I do not feel that it would lower the value if more people would have better access to higher education(like they do in certain parts of Europe). But to each their own. Agree to disagree.

 

[Oeconomist]

@Graywing—

As I said, shifting still more of the burden to the taxpayer wouldn't make college education pay for itself; instead, actual costs would become even greater, while the marginal value of a degree would drop even more. Resources would be flushed down the toilet.

Bernie talks of a fantasy European nation, switching whither he points as he gets called-out.

Socialism is based upon a fundamental misunderstanding of the problem of economic calculation. The information needed to approach a best use of resources is fundamentally decentralized, and allowing technocrats to set prices instead of markets results in chaos, rather than greater order.

 

[Truerror]

These lolis like bears, I see. Still, there's a certain kind of bear they should not like. Instead, they should avoid it like the plague...

 

[themangaweeaboo]

oh christ the comments are both hilarious and a dumpster fire 😅

thanks for the translation!

 

[Strela]

Ignoring the retardations that happened on the certain part of comment sections, Yuna x Fina ship is sailing here too apparently. The Web novel have little teases here and there but the manga seems to amped it a bit.

It's nowhere close to the anime version though, Yuna x Fina shipping is so obvious they even make the already sweet ED song (anone) even sweeter by modifying the lyrics into more romantic tone on the final ep.

 

[ElizLestrad]

I know she means well,

But I can't help finding Yuna's insistence on the use of child labor hysterical.

 

[Pietje013]

Lol fear of missing out...