Kid Nation
Kid Nation

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M. Giant: B- | 220 USERS: C+
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Micro Economics
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It's Day 20, and Divad has opened up a snack bar. From a table set up on one of the porches, she's selling stuff like peach cobbler at five cents a square. She claims that she's doing this so that everyone can afford something, since the stores are so expensive and nothing at her snack bar is more than ten cents. Of course, if her only goal was really to bring snacks to the masses, nothing there would be more than zero. But let's not split hairs. Not everyone seems to appreciate the business venture. Several members of the perpetually poor Green team show up to complain, as Sophia asks why she should pay five cents for canned apples that she could get from the kitchen for free. Divad tries to make a case for her value-added service. Laurel interviews that Red members like Divad aren't exactly hurting for money. And Divad doesn't even have the full support of the Red team, as we see Jared approaching his (apparently mute) teammate Jasmine in one of the stores to say that Divad needs a little competition, pointedly asking, "Do you see where I'm going?" Yes, but Jasmine's not going there with him. Next thing we see is Jared trying to set up a sad little table of his own, while Divad's supporter Kelsey harangues him about being negative while Laurel looks on. Kelsey rants, "Bill Gates has so much money! He made Microsoft and nobody complained about it." Well, not as much since she's been alive, maybe. Apropos of nothing, I'll just take this moment to point out that nobody ever complained about LBJ. Kelsey suggests that Jared offer to work for Divad for five cents a day. Jared takes this as the insult it is and storms off, saying, "Screw you." He complains bitterly to the cameras about Divad's activities, and that "the leadership isn't doing anything about it." So Jared does. Namely, he goes over to Divad's unattended snack bar and shoves the whole thing over onto the ground. All better now?

After the commercials, Kelsey is the first one to find the disarray. As Divad returns from wherever she's been, Kelsey starts freaking out at her over what Jared did. Guylan and Laurel show up for a little Council presence, but Divad is remaining calm and saying she's okay, and doesn't even want anyone's help cleaning up. As she sweeps up, she says that jealous people do things to throw the people they're jealous of off track, but shrugs, "But when they do it to me, it just makes me work harder." And she demonstrates this by sweeping the refuse into the street.

Kid Nation