karl646 said:I hate how this "realist"/genius is coming up with these amazing ideas like. ..We have no money...just sell stuff from the treasury(also no one has invented loans i quess) or people are starving...no one in this country of thousands of people thought WHY. We have a prime minister that is supposed to be smart or alt least capable of simple logic. The anime praises the mc as a realist but to me it looks like everyone else in the kingdom is an idiot.The anime is literally making everyone else dumb just to make the ReaLisT look really smart and awesome. This anime is insulting everyone's intelligence.
1. Liscia opposed the MC's plans on selling some of the items in the treasury at first because the national treasure belonged to the people. (vol.1 pg.37) Many of the items in the treasury have sentimental value, so it was unlikely the thought of selling the items came to mind since Liscia have stated "just arbitrarily selling them off is a betrayal of our own people!" Vol 1. Page 34 also indicated that one of the main character's financial proposal to the king was to sell off some state-owned facilities, cap government spending, and turn over some of the previous king's personal assets.
2. The primary reason many people in the Kingdom were starving was the overreliance on producing cash crops. MC discovered the farmers were allocating too many resources and land to produce cash crops, so he had to reform many of the kingdom's agrarian practices.This would take time, so he had to introduce alternative food items to the populace. Cotton was one of the main exports of the kingdom and it was very profitable due to the expansion of the demon lord's domain since demand for raw materials had skyrocketed. (vol. 1 pg. 44)
Remember that the Kingdom is under HEAVY financial pressure from the Empire, it had to fulfill its financial obligation to the Empire first and foremost.
There are real life instances where farmers focus on growing cash crops than producing edible ones, so it isn't unrealistic.
https://www.ncpedia.org/agriculture/great-depression
The biggest problems for North Carolina farmers resulted from growing too much cotton and tobacco, the state’s two main cash crops. (Farmers grow a cash crop for sale rather than for personal food or for feeding livestock.) During the 1920s, farmers produced more than buyers needed of these crops, creating a glut on the market. As a result, tobacco and cotton prices plummeted. The introduction of new man-made materials such as rayon, women’s new “flapper” dress styles that required less fabric, and increased competition from foreign textile mills combined to topple “King Cotton” from its throne in the 1920s. In North Carolina, cotton that had sold for more than 30 cents a pound in 1919 was selling for less than 6 cents in 1931. By that same year, prices for tobacco—which had surpassed cotton as the state’s new “king” crop—had dropped to just 9 cents a pound, compared to 86 cents in 1919. Many farmers received less for their crops than it cost to produce them. Less income meant farmers could not buy needed farm supplies, or even food and clothing for their families. They relied on banks and merchants for more and more credit. They sank deeper and deeper into debt.
3. I don't find a poorly managed kingdom as an insult to someone's intelligence. There are real world examples of problems that remain unsolved due to politics. For example, San Francisco's housing plight is one of them. A simple solution would be to build more housing, but many residents block the proposals to do so, which ultimately hinders the city's construction efforts.
MugenNoShirayuki said:karl646 said:I hate how this "realist"/genius is coming up with these amazing ideas like. ..We have no money...just sell stuff from the treasury(also no one has invented loans i quess) or people are starving...no one in this country of thousands of people thought WHY. We have a prime minister that is supposed to be smart or alt least capable of simple logic. The anime praises the mc as a realist but to me it looks like everyone else in the kingdom is an idiot.The anime is literally making everyone else dumb just to make the ReaLisT look really smart and awesome. This anime is insulting everyone's intelligence.
Exactly! I hate the "we have to make MC look competent so let's make everyone else as incompetent as possible in comparison" form of characterization. It's lazy, and there are ways to make this premise work without making the characters dumb.
How exactly are the characters dumb and what are some ways to make this premise work without making the characters dumb? Pray tell!! |
