megablaziken:

megablaziken:

I think my favorite thing about Animal Crossing is that because of the evident lack of tax structure and inability of residents to fund public work projects themselves, any and all public services are executed exclusively by me, the mayor. When someone asks for a fountain or a bench or a lighthouse, I personally go through the trouble of working odd jobs like catching and selling exotic species to two alpacas that are probably laundering money and use that revenue to single-handedly finance everything in the town out of my own pocket.

Pursuant to the topic of the taxation policies and distribution of wealth within the town, I do question the income level of the other residents. If a 600,000 house upgrade can be dismissed as “pocket change” by the Tanuki-Turned-Tycoon Tom Nook, what are his other clients paying him for the expansion, upkeep, and remodeling of their own homes? Evidently, I am the only resident capable of affording a multi-roomed home, but that alone should make him see it as a rare occurrence and not as a quotidian renovation. Beyond this, I am the only resident of the town that holds an official job, yet all the money I make comes exclusively from playing finders keepers, poaching animals, and performing bizarre tasks for others in the town. Are we to assume that the other denizens do the same?

What fuels Re-Tail’s income stream? I don’t see them reselling the profuse amount of beetles I hand them on a nightly basis and, honestly, who could afford them given that no one else is employed? The same piece of furniture will sit on display and gathering dust for months at a time. How are they able to liquidate of these meager assets into enough cash to hand me hundreds of thousands of bells a day?