There was an episode where the kids made their own currency with like bottle caps or trading cards or something and they set up jobs to earn more and commerce to spend it. The main character realized, however, that he could just be the boss of a bunch of kids, making them do all the work while collecting a percentage of the profit and justify it by being their "manager". Eventually they realized this was silly and that they didn't need a boss telling them what to do. If I remember the episode made it even more obvious because at the end they were literally like "this is terrible, why would we choose to organize a society like this" or something to that effect.