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Cute Russian comic. The home of the official English version is here if anyone wants to skip ahead (or support them): https://boosty.to/gabiconomics-en
The marginal propensity to consume(MPC) is the metric quantified as ratio of consumtion spending and income.
As an example - if you spend 9 coins with a salary of 10, your MPC = 0.9. It becomes impossible to accumulate any large amount of savings, and because of this you're often forced to overpay. Coupled with mortgage, for example, we get the current household market: with high MPC It's near impossible to save up for an apartment costing 8 millions, which leads you to overpay a total of 27 millions to the bank over the next 25 years.
Tangentially related hot take but Sam Vimes is a class traitor (bad) and Carrot is a class traitor (good). Both are still cops.
Carrot might technically be a royal, but his actual class background is proletarian and functionally an ethnic minority, at least within the context of Ankh-Morpork, so in practical terms he's as much a class traitor as Vimes and in a similar way, for all that Vimes is objectively a piece of shit who is at best a lesser evil compared to much of the setting's elites, while Carrot is fundamentally a well-meaning true believer who's likable and earnestly trying to improve the material conditions of the city and make the police somewhat less shit.
Oh fuck, Carrot is just Judge Dredge except charismatic. Maybe he wouldn't nuke another city to save Ankh-Morpork the way Dredd did in the Apocalypse War, but he really is just an affable Judge Dredd: a fanatic true believer with a layered belief of the law and then his own ideals atop it. Carrot would definitely say that murder is a crime even where there's no law, and he'd ignore non-murder crime if he wasn't legally on duty in a jurisdiction. He'd probably even arrest himself for a petty noise violation out of consideration for his neighbors.
His father was a mine supervisor (which they literally call king) so I'd argue he was from a more managerial and therefore petty bourgeoisie background. Also since we're talking about context, we should probably address the inherent idealist nature of Discworld in the form of a physical meta element Narrativium which renders material analysis kind of obsolete since Carrot suffers from what is essentially Royal Lysenkoism.
Wow, that's true. Things in discworld always happen because of what kind of story they make. Like a burning wheel always rolling away from any accident. I used to like that about discworld, because it nicely parodies all those tropes. But you're right it can be problematic, if it's used to inform political takes. And that is absolutely happening in the watch and nightwatch books: people are just inherently like this, they need a strong hand governing them, machiavellianism is the lesser evil, revolutionaries are misled and dangerous, revolutions need to be managed and railroaded into save tracks, slow little reform is the best you can hope for. It's plain socdem idealism.
Edit: Also, if an aristocrat displays basic human decency and a willingness to get their hands dirty, they are somehow a saint for this and excused from all the exploitation they still do through "passive" income. But that's just Terry Pratchett being British.