Why do we actually have to work? Why do we have to go to school and work every day? What does money have to do with it, and why do some people have a lot of it and others have little? Why is a lump of gold worth so much and a stone worth nothing? Ezra wants to know who came up with all of this. One morning he bombards his mom with questions: Why do we have to work? Why do we even need money? She patiently explains everything she knows: which bills she has to pay every month, what an inheritance is, what capitalism means, and why you can't just print money endlessly. A children's non-fiction book that explains seemingly simple questions cleverly and encourages us all to think about a fairer world. Saskia Hödl, born in Vienna in 1985, studied journalism