>That episode of Recess that was about the dangers of out-of-control

>>93104022
If it was made today, there'd be a constant loop of threads mocking/loathing its "SJW propaganda"

>>93104022
this whomps

>>93104082

There's a black character in the show, the threads wouldn't make it far enough to mock the content of the show.

>>93104022
That was my favorite episode, really wanted a stack of those stickers.

>>93104342

>he seriously thinks that people wouldn't be freaking out about things being "sjw propaganda"

>>93104342
>Which episode is this because you're probably wrong

They're not wrong. The episode is S02E19 Economics of Recess:

>T.J. discovers that while he was out sick, the school has undergone a currency implementation, "Monstickers." It would now require an X amount of Monstickers to do anything that was free at recess. At first, T.J. is broke, but through hard work and investments, he becomes the richest kid in school and grows mad with power and greed.

>>93104342
The Economics of Recess
>you're probably wrong
>Begins as a classic "rags to riches" story
>TJ starts doing jobs to make stickers
>Starting with the younger kids, he starts hiring people to do the jobs he was doing
>He pays them less and keeps the difference, meaning the working kids get shafted and he makes money off of work he didn't do
>Eventually TJ controls 80% of the wealth
>He wants to control 100% of the wealth
>Everyone is either working for him or is unemployed and too broke to afford anything
>His greed causes a moral decay within him and he alienates his friends.

>>93104448
They only missed a part where he burns the whole school yard and builds an undersea utopia.

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>>93104374
>he seriously thinks that people wouldn't be freaking out about things being "sjw propaganda"

The same way people are freaking out about white supremacy and fascism? Everyone just needs to shut up and enjoy the show.

>>93104022
>that episode where their teacher complains about white cis males in history class
Im not making this up. the word cis was explicitly used

>>93104448
It's like the plot of There Will Be Blood

>>93104561
Pretty sure this was before CIS, but their hippie teacher does attack the British 13 colonies as being ungrateful backstabbers to the Native Americans.

>>93104561
>Im not making this up
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D-GtBBcgn7k

Why must you turn this Zimbabwean virtual kickball court into a den of lies?

>>93104533

Those people don't post on this board. The people that bitch about everything being "sjw propaganda" post on this board.

>>93104022
I thought it was about the dangers of not diversifying your stock portfolio.

>>93104682
>The people that bitch about everything being "sjw propaganda" post on this board.

So do the people who bitch about the people who bitch about "sjw propaganda", like the person I was replying to.

I'm not the poster who called you /co/mblr, but you can't convince me that Tumblr and 4chan don't have a bleed over community, and pearl clutchers on both sides come here to bitch. I really can't wait for the current political climate settles down.

>>93104022

I vaguely remember an episode where TJ went crazy....like genuinely crazy.

And it wasn't the one where he was stuck in the "box", or when he went feral after being captured by rabid kindergarteners.

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Ajimbo!

...anyone else wish they would've made that game?

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(I'm writing this as I watch)

Let's pretend that this is the real world and they really own the things they were disallowing people from despite the fact most of that shit belonged to the school.

>Tj Sells his hat for 5 stickers
Wtf, he could barely do anything with 8 and 5 is worth his identity?
>That speech
Beautiful, though from what I read in this thread this goes wrong (somehow).
>Work Montage of voluntary exchanges of labor for currency
This is great.

>His friends want to slack off instead of working
They're going to need money later and they show is going to expect me to feel sorry for them despite this scene amirite?

>This stupid fucking kid is going to spend his entire day at that door for 2 stickers
His time clearly isn't valuable, and he wasn't smart enough to make the same deal TJ did with the previous door guard.

Am I supposed to think TJ is the bad guy yet?

>Those digger kids/king bob literally watched TJ have someone else do it for cheaper and didn't just hire them instead despite the fact they clearly didn't need him to manage them or anything
It sure is easy to make a system seem bad when you make everyone in the school but TJ fucking mentally challenged.

>"You have no choice (but to sell TJ the balls)"
Randall could have just said fucking no or said he wouldn't sell unless TJ gave him more stickers. WHY IS EVERYONE ON THIS PLAYGROUND RETARDED (This is rhetorical, I know they're kids).

>>93104022
This is still one of my most favorite episodes, and I grew up to be a right wing douche bag.

>>93105240
This episode is right-wing propaganda, TJ worked hard and earned money then people villainized him because of their own bad decisions

>Fines/penalties/regulation destroy the competition to TJ's tray monopoly because only government has the ability to enforce a monopoly

>tfw Disney is the worst at putting out their shows on DVD/BD
>tfw you will never see a Recess Complete Series in your lifetime
>tfw the only Disney's One Saturday Morning show to get a complete DVD release will probably remain Weekenders

Not that Weekenders was a bad show, but they had more than one show; I mean, c'mon!

It's hilarious how TJ's transition to being an asshole came out of nowhere.

Also
>TJ invest all his money in one currency
>Currency massively deflates
>People stop valuing the currency
>New currency outcompetes the old one
>TJ's monopoly on a currency helped destroy it
>Capitalism wins again

>>93105510
How did anyone think this was anti-capitalist?

>>93105510
>>93105553
It's all well and good in the end of the episode because it's presented as silly kids games in a cartoon where each episode has no lasting consequences. But in real life this stuff isn't as simple as moving on to a new sticker fad. In real life this type of economics leads to poverty, crime and death.

Why the fuck did the school allow kids to just start claiming ownership of playground equipment and not let other kids use it unless they gave them their stuff? That seems like pretty fucking blatant bullying in retrospect.

Also the use of stickers as currency seems flawed by their lack of rarity. Unless those were some kind of rare collectors stickers any kid should be able to buy them by the hundred with like 10 bucks. If there's any rich kids with exorbitant allowances they could easily destroy the economy even more.

>>93105726
>Why the fuck did the school allow kids to just start claiming ownership of playground equipment and not let other kids use it unless they gave them their stuff?
I don't think you realize how little teachers care

>>93105119
They're kids. They tend to not have a good idea of how to manage time or money.

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>>93105680
>Markets with a higher economic freedom rating tend to have higher average incomes
>[pic related]

Also this isn't exactly a /co/ discussion so let's just agree it was a good episode and move on.

>>93105726
>any kid should be able to buy them by the hundred with like 10 bucks. If there's any rich kids with exorbitant allowances they could easily destroy the economy even more.

Apparently that happened (when a bunch of kids had money to buy stuff he assumed someone's uncle bought a bunch) but I don't think the concept of inflation was well understood here.

I just finished S2 and it still holds up, along with the movie.

>>93106022
The movie was really fucking great, it's one of the best summer time movies.

>>93106022
The movie is so fucking weird.
From what I remember about Recess as a cartoon, it was fairly realistic. Like Hey Arnold, I guess.
Then this movie comes in and there's fucking lasers and tractor beams and shit, that nobody else can see happening but TJ. And then Principal Prickley gets fucking VAPORIZED. Like what the hell?
Nevertheless, that movie is still one of my childhood favorite tapes that I watched god knows how many times.

>>93106126
You're correct, but there was the occasional weird thing in the tv show, such as Santa Claus being a real person and Spinelli's dad being a secret agent.

>>93104660
That other guy btfo

>>93106126
The Hey Arnold movie was also fairly off the wall, from what I remember. And the Doug movie was about them finding an alien or a swamp monster or something.

>>93105726
I take it you weren't around for Pokemon at its absolute peak? It didn't matter how much money you had, because every store sold out of Pokemon cards within an hour of getting a new shipment. I still have my local ToysRus' phone number memorized from calling them daily.

>>93104788
4chan, Tumblr, and Reddit have always shared much of the same userbase even though they all claim to hate each other.

>>93105553
It's an indictment of greed and mindless acquisitiveness moreso than capitalism

>>93106943
I've been on 4chan since 2005 and use Reddit every day, it's absolutely insane how completely wrong 4chan is about the userbase of Reddit on a daily basis. They really just want a bogeyman to hate, some kind of encroaching cultural force they can rally against. But I'm sorry to say, faggotry is endemic on the internet

>That episode about the nerds and D&D

>>93107019
It's mostly just shitposting and you definitely need to go back. I didn't make that post to give obliviously pseudo-intellectual redditors like yourself the go ahead to proudly announce that you browse a website that we all obviously fucking browse.

>>93107178
>I didn't make that post to gi
Yeah well I did my own thing with it

>>93104448
nothing about this is wrong

>>93105510
That has to be the scariest part of being rich. If the poor were ever smart enough to wake up one day and start trading in some other currency, everything you own in liquid, have in the form of a stock or bond with explicit payouts in the old currency, or have sitting in the bank just loses all of its value.
But then again, it's not like poor they are that smart, so...

>>93109785
Keep the people poor and stupid.

>>93109785
This is why the federal reserve was formed and gold was taken by the government.


The Federal Reserve Note is a government enforced monopoly and to maintain the value of our dollar we ensure that oil is traded with it. And a lot of these topics are too complex for an 11 minute cartoon to handle or discuss, so when they do it ends up being sort of a mess of ideas that just don't coherently follow.

I'm not saying cartoons can't touch on moral topics, but they shouldn't bite off more than they can chew.

>>93105149
Yet in real life people continue to buy Macs, consoles and other pre-built PCs despite the fact you can get one custom made by the kid down the street for half the price.

You're underestimating the power of branding combined with laziness.

>>93104448
I think the currency changing at the end of the episode is a metaphor for the reset that civil wars cause

>>93109856
I'm not getting into the value that comes from convenience as well as time-preference. Or ultimately subjective reasons (because value is subjective), that one might decide another option is better for them than a custom or personally built PC.

But yes, brands do have value. It comes from building consumer trust, a good reputation that makes people think if they buy your product their getting value or quality. Or in some cases, status.

People choosing brand names isn't a problem, I don't understand the point of this post?

>>93104660
>since it focuses primarily on white western males
>only people actually able to advance in history beyond the steel age

>>93105149
When someone wants a building built do they hire individual builders and mange them themselve? or do they go to a building company with a boss and workers and ask them to do it

>>93110070
Managing the construction of a building is a far more difficult task than managing the guy standing next to you fanning you.

>>93110109
Yeah but the whole episode was a metaphor
That bit being a metaphor for being a boss and hiring out workers

>That episode where Lawson really gave it to Spinelli

http://archiveofourown.org/works/7884013

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>>93104022
Oh fuck you now I have to go watch it again.

>>93110126
If we're going with the construction metaphor which is a stretch for basic manual labor like fanning or digging.

Managing a construction project calls for a lot of planning skills, leadership ability, and knowledge about the specifications and requirements of such an endeavor as well as managing budget and time constraints. It is in an incredibly active task that takes a lot of time and delegation from a lot of people and most aren't capable of being at the helm of that, which makes the person who is capable of that incredibly valuable, which assuming TJ is that manager in this metaphor then TJ deserved the money he was making, which assuming this was anti-capitalist instead of anti-materialist, would destroy the rest of the episode because it would mean TJ earned and deserved everything he had and was robbed of it by an unfortunate market crash in monstickers.

>>93104682
To be fair, anti-/pol/ is around now and it's likely only a matter of time before their overly attuned tribal autism spirals into genuine SJW nonsense because of some misguided "the enemy of my enemy is my friend" sentiment.

>>93110592
Its already here, just rarer and hard to discern if its baitposting or genuine..

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>>93110592
Pretty sure all anti-/pol/ are SJWs "MUH BOARD CULTURE IS TO REJECT ALL THINGS FROM THE RIGHT!"

And considering I'm posting on /co/mblr, thats not surprising.

>>93104022
Why did he loose everything in the end?
I thought he owned it.
You can't just implement a new currency and disown people

>>93107178
>that we all obviously fucking browse.
Not me dude, that shit is such a mess and ugly to look at. Not to mention account systems in general are a huge turn off for me which is why i am here basically every day to hear other people sho the shit and catch up on some news/other information that will inevitably be posted.

The good thing about this place is unpopular opinions get the most attention here because of the (you) system rather than an upvoting one, the opposite of places like reddit.

Not to mention the mods there are supposedly worse than the ones here as they are more active in the community, but since i never go/post there i wouldn't actually know.

Why do Americans see communism/socialism as something edgy and cool?

>>93110844
Corporatocracy warped their views of capiltalism.

>>93109883
That or market trends change and places can accept other forms of currency. Also >not diversifying

>>93110813
Without government you can, currency hoarding is only valuable when the government can protect the value of your currency using taxpayer money or legislation.

>>93110844
Capitalism gave them the ability to make a show like Recess, so thus they have to support an economic model where no cartoons existed

The moral of this episode?
>DIVERSIFY YOUR ASSETS
BUY MONSTICKERS
BUY KICKBALLS
BUY WATER BOTTLES/CHOCOLATE MILK/ JUICE

INVEST IN THE SWINGSET

>>93110901
but din't he owned the balls the right to the playground and the grass?
i mean if not how could he charge money for it?
So even with a new currency he would still own these things

>>93110954
>if not how could he charge money for it?
through lies and deceit

>>93110987
What a little shit

>>93110954
Because this show's metaphor was all over the place and at the end of the episode he was literally robbed of all the shit he'd bought and owned before the new stickers.

>>93111070
But also he couldn't have owned this shit in the first place because it belonged to the school

>>93111079
fuck the school at this point.
he owned 2 of the 3 powers.

>>93104788
4chan and Tumblr only bleed over when it comes to the porn

>>93104788
This so much, there are far more people on this board who complain about /pol/ spooks than actual /pol/ spooks.

>>93105803
And loosing time and money is how kids learn.

>>93105680
>In real life this type of economics leads to poverty, crime and death
The same thing could be said about communism :^)

>>93111240
literally not

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The end of the episode is everyone moving onto bitcoin cryptocurrency and leaving old currency twats behind.

>>93111343
wow hitler much?

>>93109836
And to ensure that oil is traded wiht the dollar we kill Gadaffi if he no longer wants to

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>>93111079
He obviously bribed Prickly with monstickers so he would look the other way
T.J. was basically running a mafia off-screen here