Having thought about the ending a bit more, I wonder if the creators were trying to raise questions along the lines of
Critical Theory. We all take the current economic system for granted, but it hasn't also had the form it has today. Can we truly say that this is the best system? The only system that works - or at least, that will work once we get it right? Can we truly get it right, or will the someone always screw it up by using the system in the wrong way?
Critical theorists would emphatically say "NO", and seek to overturn the entire system and establish a new one. In terms of this, 「C」's ending seems to suggest that 'actually, the current system can never be completely overturned, though it can be changed'.
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Originally Posted by hamstar
This confirms my theory that what Kimi saw at the end was a dream of the future to come. Either that or Kimi is physically transported to future Japan.
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Another way to look at it is that this is the present leading to one of the possible futures that Masakaki was talking about at ~22:20.
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Originally Posted by Bri
For the first time the anime showed that there is at least one person in their staff with some notion of economic theory.
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You do realise that
they weren't actually trying to make an anime that accurately represented economic theory, right?
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Originally Posted by Peanutbutter003
Seems like the official site has some info that was not shown.
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A LOT of info actually. I did translate a tiny bit (see link above); will see about the rest when I have time - though if anyone else want to share, feel free!
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Originally Posted by Dextro
Anyway I'm wondering: are there any related works to [C] planned? Manga? Novels? Short Stories? Anything?
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Not that I know of. Though I haven't exactly checked all that carefully...