1,000 likes and I'll make a video about what evil team I'd run in Pokemon and how I'd cause hyperinflation. I don't even expect this video to get that many views but screw it
I love how someone analysed this so much. The video is well made and it makes sence. I haven't studied economy ,and english is not my first language but the video was easily digestible and explains a lot about real economy in top of it. Basic economy ,but still. Great job mate!
Evil Team Leader PaPaSea spent months developing a higher power version of the Pokémon move Payday, washing away opponents with thousands of Pokédollars. A team of Persians now are being equipped with this move, attacking the lower classes with their new move: Paymonth
What does the Pokemon Economy have to say about Lemonade which heals 80 HP for only 50p more than a potion that heals 20 and costs half as much as a Super Potion which heals only 50? Is this like the knock off brand that does exactly these same but is way cheaper but nobody uses because they don't wanna look like the grimy low-life who sits at the vending machine buying them all?
I think just like in the game, it's all about time and accessibility. With potions you can easily buy a bunch at any local pokemart, but buying lemonade not only requires finding one but also the time it takes to put in the coins and watch the lemonade come to you one by one.
Lemonade waa never meant for pokemon consumption. It also can give negative health benefits, such as a larger weight gain and Snorabetes. The healing effects were only discovered by Chad, who gave his Steelix three daily to make his Heavy Slams stronger.
@@michaelwalsh9404 that’s how I’ve always looked at it bc your mom always starts you with like 2500-3000 poke and it’d be obscene to give a 10 year old $3k and it’d be insane for a single base line pokeball to be $200
7:38 maybe that's why Giovanni has a persian and the one rocket grunt tries to recruit you by giving you a nugget or whatever. Maybe holding all the money WAS part of giovanni's plan.
The repel pricing is also weird. Normally a larger bottle would cost less relative to smaller sizes, but the Super Repel (2.5 dollar per step) is cheaper than the Max Repel (2.8 dollar per step)
@@conansglasses2645 Super repels are cheaper than regular repels, so your argument can't be used in this case then. I would think the max repels should be cheaper because of quantity discounts. Since B2W2 the game asks you to use another one, so you don't need to put a lot of effort in using one
@@conansglasses2645 Think of it as a bottle of soda. Let's say a 1L bottle costs 1$. You'd expect a 1.5L bottle to be either 1.5$ (so the price is just proportional to quantity) or lower (which is almost always the case in real life). You'd never see a 1.5L bottle cost say 2$ when the 1L bottle costs 1$, as people would just buy the 1L bottle, since they're getting 33% more for the same price.
Team Inflation! The only Evil Pokemon Team based on the economy and are the IRS too!Planning to control the economy after they crash it. In conclusion, the best Evil Pokemon Team. Next To Cipher and Team Enforce. An Evil Pokemon Team based on Riot Police. (In which we need the most)
I remember Drayden is the Mayor of Opelucid City. Every gym leader in Gen 5 has some other job or work or some kind of identity I believe. But Pokemon really doesn't dip much in the political things, it just gets somehow messy when it comes to politics.
When you say “In 2010, $2360.90 was equal to 1 Zimbabwe Dollar”, that makes it sound like their money is worth a lot. Am I missing something, or was that a typo?
@@ALEC-gi2nt no, it is said correctly. There was so much money in Zimbabwe due to printing more that everything cost a crazy amount, everybody was made objectively richer but subjectively, nothing changed, which caused things to remain poor.
What if the form of “taxation” used in the Pokémon world is battling the elite 4? Assuming most trainers lose, the money the elite 4 earns from losing trainers could to towards funding services like roads, police and pokecenters. Since no formal government seems to exist and the elite 4 and champion seem to be the top of the hierarchy I’d guess they’d act as an informal government, except instead of getting voted in you have to prove your strength by beating them all.
Fun fact! Pokemon in Japanese (even SwSh) actually doesn't have the pokedollar symbol, it is just yen! But then again, just because it uses the yen kanji doesn't NECESSARILY mean it's actually yen, I guess. Interesting video regardless!
I think it would be weird for that currency not to be yen. Not only because it already uses the kanii (円) but also because nearly every Japanese game uses it.
This is always something I've kinda wondered about and now that I'm studying Econ in college, this video made a lot of sense. Please completely analyze this more!! I am here for it :D
It’s quite possible that payday is regulated by the pokemon super government. Rumors (false) have it that poke dollars were selected to be the currency due to payday coins looking very attractive to ancient tribes.
I totally love this kind of topics, just imo I would watch a more extended version of them. Overall, keep it going you make me think about this kind of stuff more and I'm liking it!
I figured a video like this wouldn't do so well so I didnt want to make it too long which would hurt it even more with the algorithm. I just covered the most important parts
I love this. "Coincidentally supports the idea". It wasnt intended but it works anyways. I think English teachers should take a look at this sentence before making students overanalyze some Dead guy's text
Nurse joy most likely does get paid as Pokémon Centers are just universal healthcare so Pokémon Centers as well as the staff that are in them are paid through taxes or some kind of national insurance
Your idea if you were an evil team leader does not exactly fit that situation in Zimbabwe since Zimbabwe had to compare their currency with international currencies, but the idea still holds. Maybe even more so since every pokemon region uses the same universal currency.
The only form of government in Pokemon were ancient kings, being AZ and the Kings of Galar. Really surprised how a government has never really been brought up, though.
most of the time people convert poke to yen then to usd or their country currency, so 100 poke is 100 yen then that would be $1. so 1 million poke would equal 10,000 usd not 1 million usd
Electronics have also gone down in price in the real world. Tvs and computers are both better and cheaper than they were decades ago. Better manufacturing techniques could have dropped the price of potions in the games.
This may just be my favourite video on TH-cam. Such a great concept and analysis that I don't even mind the traumatic memories of my own economics classes.
One love ur stuff two technically there is two the two guys at the end of shield and sword I think & prince N are the only political parties in 25 years in the main games
(sorta) related but I had a shower thought once about if the Pokemon Centers are private businesses or if they're state owned and my theory is that in the regions where the PC and Mart are seperate buildings, the Pokemon Centers are state owned (Kanto, Johto, Hoenn and Sinnoh) but in the regions where the Pokemon Center and Mart are in the same building, the PCs are privately owned (Unova, Kalos, Alola and Galar)
Nice video idea. I know that a lot of people hate having any sort of politics or economics in video games, but it can sometimes be fun to analyze these concepts. It has been my belief for some time now that most of the regions of the Pokemon world, both in the anime and games, are libertarian in nature. There are far too many examples to list throughout the series. Training Pokemon for self-defense is encouraged from a young age. Peaceful and moral individuals like Ash, May and Dawn can go to whatever region they want without any issues. You can buy and sell many things freely, including DRUGS for your Pokemon! It is definitely not a lawless world though, as the multiple Officer Jennies and police/police stations throughout the anime prove.
For the potion thing. I feel like the simplest explanation is that with time the technology to develop them has advanced and the cost of manufacturing has lowered significantly
Pokeballs are not made in every region. The Pokeball factory was in Kalos and is part of the X and Y story. Considering pokeballs are more important than Lava cookies, it seems like there is definitely free trade between regions. However, shipping costs would likely be non existent as flying Pokémon could easily transport the load from region to region.
I think the one factor of the lower price of the Energy Root is that using it lowers the friendship of the Pokemon, which affects certain evolutions and the move Return. Other than that maybe hypothetically the plastic packaging, branding (?), preservatives and buffers for the medicine, patents, we could go on by comparing the pharmaceutical industry and natural remedy industry.
Pokedollars are literally just Yen in the Japanese version. It even uses the proper kanji as well. The only games in Japanese to use the play symbol are Colloseum and XD weirdly enough
I always like to assume there is some kind of pokemon trainer economy with their own internationally agreed upon currency which is not connected at all or in a very limited way to their regular currency.
An interesting and related topic of discussion would be the real life economy that exists because of Pokémon games. The value of any given Pokémon. For example what’s the perceived worth of a Mew? What about a shiny Mew? What was the impact on their value of Deoxys becoming obtainable in ORAS and Keldeo being obtainable in the Crown Tundra? Is a shiny common Pokémon worth more than a legendary? Is it worth more than a mythical?
I always assumed the pokedollar was a form of currency that's used in all pokemon league affiliated organisations, and because everyone uses pokemon they're money is basically the defacto for normal stores to use since your probably getting your power from a pokemon ran powerplant, they arnt in charge of the regions they definetly have they're own rulers but like do they tho
Honestly I like this analysis much more than when game theory spent 15 mins continuously explaining that the 100 poke dollars is equivalent to 100 yen, or 1 usd
Japan had a vision of the future of non-stop population growth and an economy rebounding, engery efficiency, nature and land bridges connecting skyscrapers. The idea of engery becoming free and almost limitless, the computer back then and today leads one to a poke'future.
I don't think shipping costs would be very much between regions no matter the distance. Pokemon with Teleport make it pointless. Using the mechanic as shown possible in Pokemon Coliseum at Mt. Battle (or what the show implies of there not being limits), just use a few Abra to teleport from the region where its made to the region where it will be distributed, at least to the major city for distribution in that region, then go back. In fact, with free transportation methods using Pokemon (flying in most games, Poke Ride in Alola, Corviknight taxis in Galar), even having to go back without teleporting would be fine. Then even with normal game mechanics, just have the delivery person avoid Pokemon centers everywhere but their delivery location and have different workers for each region. Like instead of them delivering everywhere, each specific worker only goes back and forth to one region, just have maybe a few different workers doing it to make it faster. Granted, game mechanics have been shown even in game to not be the only way things work in world, with flying Pokemon being shown capable of flying places not possible for players, so its hard to say what restrictions there even are for using Teleport. Which in itself does bring up the question of why more criminals don't use Abra. Just catch one, rob a place, teleport away. Build an organization by breeding them. Imagine if Giovanni had tried that, just grabbing the Silph Scope and teleporting back to the Rocket Hideout instead of struggling to grab it until you stopped him.
For the government in the pokemon world, I actually think it was explained to be the champion. I honestly believe that though. For the first 6 generations it’d make sense considering you don’t actually take the position from them. If you beat lance, lance is still at the pokemon league. You become one of the champions in the hall of fame but never actually take the title of reigning champion. For Alola, it’s possible that since they only just got an elite four and champion, that they have a different system of government. I personally think that the island kahunas collectively govern the region. For Galar, the league is seen as more of a sport and so I’d assume that while you’re champion in title, Leon is still in power since you wouldn’t be old enough. For Kanto I’m not sure. It’s already odd that Blue took the previous champions title and yet you can’t take his place. I’d assume it’d be the same as in gold and silver though. Lance would probably be in power as the final member of the elite four but Red would hold the title.
Honestly when looking at the Pokémon government I feel more like we only see the military structure in the games. Gym leaders are suppose to be the strongest line of defense for the settlement they live in acting as both the trump card and regional commanders of the troops. Elite 4 and champion are the strongest military assets and act as the deterrent for other nations and segments of the country from rebelling. For what I have seen you have a draft like program where younger children are tasked to travel and train with a group of pokemon. The goal is to learn from the gym leaders how to handle threats or both different levels and types. If a person completes said training then they have the chance to prove their worth against the elite earning their own lace amongst them. Looking at context clues given in the games most people to not complete the training during the time frame of the "draft years" and act more as a reserve force occasionally practicing trying to maintain the skills of their pokemon. Most find work in either special corps, or outside of the military structure in the private sector. We just play as the lucky kid to be an arguably above average starter pokemon with enough chances for our team to develop quickly enough to not be aged out.
9:35 there is an error, well assuming a lava cookie is 200 In it's native region, 175 is not higher that 200 which another error is said here the cost is 100. Figure I'd point that out since little things bug me, but it's ok to make errors
@@PaPaSea yeah it's just really cool how Game Freak decided to release a new government official a few days after you released this video. Great job btw!
I don’t have any solid proof but I personally think the Pokémon world has one central government that goes over the whole world and that’s why every region has a Pokémon league aside from Alola which is a very small region and even they started to develop a Pokémon league. So the government hires Pokémon gym leaders and elite four members and takes a cut of whatever they get from Pokémon battles (since the loser always pays the winner) it would work well since gym leaders can be assumed to win far more battles than they lose and even when they lose it’s mostly to someone they beat before and this fact is even stronger with the elite four. It also explains why the high level gym leaders who presumably win more battles have larger and more complex gyms since they get more money to make their gym and hire people to fight the trained as well. This explains how most trainers are children who don’t lose much money when being beat or adults who have a separate job since the only people who make any real money from battles are the gym leaders and elite four. The champion is probably just mainly a game thing to motivate people to attempt the league therefore losing gym battles but also being the champion of any region pretty much opens you up to almost any battle since pretty much anyone would want to battle the champion of a region. This also helps with military efforts since the government would have already hired the strongest trainers in all the regions as well as having a ton of other trainers in the regions being trained by the gym leaders and elite four that really want to become champion of their region essentially making them pretty loyal to the government that runs the whole thing.
7:19 the Zimbabwe dollar would be super strong if one Zimbabwe dollar was worth $2360.90, 100 Zimbabwe dollars could buy you a decent American house in most states
But there is a hint to some higher power. In sword and shield... you meet 2 characters that are of royal blood and make you aware of it, it wouldn't surprise me if there is a major government for all the regions, but as the games are about catching pokemon and becoming a champion. There is no real reason to bring in any governing bodies into the pokemon games. I mean its implied that gyms and their leaders are selected which means some governing group must approve them too. Maybe not a countries governing body in that case. But if you are aware of how sports teams are formed for what ever sport you like, you can sort of imagine how gym leaders are selected and even what towns/cities get one.
00:01:38 They use the same currency beacuse they're the SAME COUNTRY. A "Region" is not a "country", A "Region" is a SUBSECTION "country". That would also easily explain why the full Pokedex is called the "NATIONAL Pokedex".
A region Is many things. It can be a subsection of a country (say, Lazium in Italy), or it can be an agglomeration of multiple countries (say, Turkestan). It can also be equivalent to a country, if the country closely follows a historical region. A region can, again, be many things. Continents are regions, which have their own regions, countries, which have their own regions, provinces, which have their own regions, so on, so forth.
@@ummelofilo9642 everything you said is true, but in the specific context of the Pokemon games it seems clear to me (or at-least, most likely) that a "Region" is a subsection of a country, because of these facts: Each Region contains only a small number of cities and towns; All Regions have the same currency and (seemingly) the same language; The full Pokedex is called the "National Pokedex".
my current fire red character has 6 pickup meouths, and l spent so long grinding for nuggets, pp ups, and rare candy, l found a shiny, and the 2 level 14 meouths are now level 30+ (able to evolve) and l have over 100 rare candys. it took a long time, but l royaly messed up the Economy in that timeline, with all the nuggets l found and sold. And yes, l wouldn't heal until all 6 were out of moves, and yes, they all got payday, with max pp thanks to the pp ups they found.
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1,000 likes and I'll make a video about what evil team I'd run in Pokemon and how I'd cause hyperinflation. I don't even expect this video to get that many views but screw it
I love how someone analysed this so much. The video is well made and it makes sence. I haven't studied economy ,and english is not my first language but the video was easily digestible and explains a lot about real economy in top of it. Basic economy ,but still. Great job mate!
Evil Team Leader PaPaSea spent months developing a higher power version of the Pokémon move Payday, washing away opponents with thousands of Pokédollars. A team of Persians now are being equipped with this move, attacking the lower classes with their new move: Paymonth
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We'll be waiting for that video.
@@Sadako2602 frick
What does the Pokemon Economy have to say about Lemonade which heals 80 HP for only 50p more than a potion that heals 20 and costs half as much as a Super Potion which heals only 50? Is this like the knock off brand that does exactly these same but is way cheaper but nobody uses because they don't wanna look like the grimy low-life who sits at the vending machine buying them all?
I think just like in the game, it's all about time and accessibility. With potions you can easily buy a bunch at any local pokemart, but buying lemonade not only requires finding one but also the time it takes to put in the coins and watch the lemonade come to you one by one.
@@Slenderquil Maybe...fresh things are better
Potions and the like are all made by sylph co. Not the most upstanding company
Lemonade waa never meant for pokemon consumption. It also can give negative health benefits, such as a larger weight gain and Snorabetes. The healing effects were only discovered by Chad, who gave his Steelix three daily to make his Heavy Slams stronger.
Thats some real good Fucking fruit
"why does this matter?" because i need to know literally every aspect of pokemon front to back or else i will implode.
Same
Finally, someone who gets it
I've always believed that 1 Pokedollar = 1 cent. The prices are alright with that theory.
That would make sense since 1 Yen is approximately 1 cent and it wouldn't be surprising for a Japanese game company to use Yen as a reference.
@@michaelwalsh9404 that’s how I’ve always looked at it bc your mom always starts you with like 2500-3000 poke and it’d be obscene to give a 10 year old $3k and it’d be insane for a single base line pokeball to be $200
@@trevorandrew8726 That's inflation for you. A piece of bread is million of dollars on Venezuela
@@kasei4023 lmao that’s not inflation that’s a failed country
@@ihaventshoweredin7weeksbut792 why do you think the country failed. Inflation.
7:38 maybe that's why Giovanni has a persian and the one rocket grunt tries to recruit you by giving you a nugget or whatever. Maybe holding all the money WAS part of giovanni's plan.
No but cool theory
Golden Nuggets arent exactaly common but Team Rocket can go further and steal Nuggets from another people
The repel pricing is also weird. Normally a larger bottle would cost less relative to smaller sizes, but the Super Repel (2.5 dollar per step) is cheaper than the Max Repel (2.8 dollar per step)
.... ? Isn't that because max repels last longer ?
@@conansglasses2645 500/200 = 2.5, 700/250 =2.8
@@Auralegends yes , the better product costs more ?
@@conansglasses2645 Super repels are cheaper than regular repels, so your argument can't be used in this case then. I would think the max repels should be cheaper because of quantity discounts. Since B2W2 the game asks you to use another one, so you don't need to put a lot of effort in using one
@@conansglasses2645 Think of it as a bottle of soda. Let's say a 1L bottle costs 1$. You'd expect a 1.5L bottle to be either 1.5$ (so the price is just proportional to quantity) or lower (which is almost always the case in real life). You'd never see a 1.5L bottle cost say 2$ when the 1L bottle costs 1$, as people would just buy the 1L bottle, since they're getting 33% more for the same price.
Like up people I really wanna see the evil team hyperinflation video lol
it would be the best evil team ever
for real tho but then no 10 year old could save everyone
Careful what you wish for, deviant art might just do that
@@Tinymapleart lmaooo 💀
Team Inflation! The only Evil Pokemon Team based on the economy and are the IRS too!Planning to control the economy after they crash it.
In conclusion, the best Evil Pokemon Team. Next To Cipher and Team Enforce. An Evil Pokemon Team based on Riot Police. (In which we need the most)
I remember Drayden is the Mayor of Opelucid City. Every gym leader in Gen 5 has some other job or work or some kind of identity I believe. But Pokemon really doesn't dip much in the political things, it just gets somehow messy when it comes to politics.
Well, gym leaders are a job but i think that this doesnt pay much
@Jose del Carmen Cruzado Castillo what
i was looking for a comment that mentioned Drayden
@Jose del Carmen Cruzado Castillo seriously what
@Jose del Carmen Cruzado Castillo r/Ihadastroke
Please keep completely over analyzing seemingly pointless aspects of a children’s video game
When you say “In 2010, $2360.90 was equal to 1 Zimbabwe Dollar”, that makes it sound like their money is worth a lot. Am I missing something, or was that a typo?
Think he meant the other way around, where one US Dollar is worth $2,360.90 Zimbabwe Dollars
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@@ALEC-gi2nt no, it is said correctly. There was so much money in Zimbabwe due to printing more that everything cost a crazy amount, everybody was made objectively richer but subjectively, nothing changed, which caused things to remain poor.
As a Highschool teacher, teaching the subject Economics and being a Pokemon Fan I really love this.
I'm a simple man.
I see thinking Rosa, I open the video three times in my navigator.
true af
What if the form of “taxation” used in the Pokémon world is battling the elite 4? Assuming most trainers lose, the money the elite 4 earns from losing trainers could to towards funding services like roads, police and pokecenters. Since no formal government seems to exist and the elite 4 and champion seem to be the top of the hierarchy I’d guess they’d act as an informal government, except instead of getting voted in you have to prove your strength by beating them all.
that's what saving and reloading is for, lol
I feel like with pay day, the Pokémon just finds random cash. Cause meowth likes to collect shiny objects right?
Yes, but the cash has to come from somewhere
@@PaPaSea lost money lol
@@dh-ck2om Trainers do drop money on whiting out on wild encounters.
@@PaPaSea No different from the stuff found with the Pickup ability
This is bringing back PTSD from the time I almost failed an econ course in high school
Neat analysis! Thanks for uploading! Love stuff that goes in depth into stuff like this!
Fun fact! Pokemon in Japanese (even SwSh) actually doesn't have the pokedollar symbol, it is just yen! But then again, just because it uses the yen kanji doesn't NECESSARILY mean it's actually yen, I guess. Interesting video regardless!
I think it would be weird for that currency not to be yen. Not only because it already uses the kanii (円) but also because nearly every Japanese game uses it.
This is always something I've kinda wondered about and now that I'm studying Econ in college, this video made a lot of sense. Please completely analyze this more!! I am here for it :D
In my opinion the Pokémon League is more like a guild than a Government.
It’s quite possible that payday is regulated by the pokemon super government. Rumors (false) have it that poke dollars were selected to be the currency due to payday coins looking very attractive to ancient tribes.
PaPaSea, pokemon economics video: "Hoenn is pretty close to Sinnoh"
PaPaSea, Regi trio video:
"Hoenn is far away from Sinnoh"
I totally love this kind of topics, just imo I would watch a more extended version of them. Overall, keep it going you make me think about this kind of stuff more and I'm liking it!
I figured a video like this wouldn't do so well so I didnt want to make it too long which would hurt it even more with the algorithm. I just covered the most important parts
Well, i hope it does well so in the future you can share completely what you think :)
This is exactly what a college degree should be used for
I am now going to think about Pokemon politics and polices until 2 AM. Yay?
this was me for the last 3 months when I first had the idea for this video
PapaSea asking the practical questions! Thanks for the new video!
I love this.
"Coincidentally supports the idea".
It wasnt intended but it works anyways.
I think English teachers should take a look at this sentence before making students overanalyze some Dead guy's text
It’s the... POKECONOMY
Here's a good question: What about Nurse Joy? Is she homeless if she doesn't get paid?
Nurse joy most likely does get paid as Pokémon Centers are just universal healthcare so Pokémon Centers as well as the staff that are in them are paid through taxes or some kind of national insurance
Yeah pokemon center workers would definitely get funding from the people who also fund the centers themself, most likely the government.
Thank you for that!
Maybe are taxes from guvermant like pay bills and etc
@@BriarBeeBenson lol even Kanto has a better Health care system than the US
Such an interesting take on the Pokémon games!
Your idea if you were an evil team leader does not exactly fit that situation in Zimbabwe since Zimbabwe had to compare their currency with international currencies, but the idea still holds. Maybe even more so since every pokemon region uses the same universal currency.
I think it's more likely that the government covers some of the cost of potion and superpotion and so, and that's why it's price lowered
Gas was $0.62per gallon during quarantine in ohio
Dam this essay can wait
I really wanna know the econimics and
geopolitical of the pokemon world
The only form of government in Pokemon were ancient kings, being AZ and the Kings of Galar.
Really surprised how a government has never really been brought up, though.
You make the best pokemon videos
most of the time people convert poke to yen then to usd or their country currency, so 100 poke is 100 yen then that would be $1. so 1 million poke would equal 10,000 usd not 1 million usd
That still makes a bike from ceruralean $10,000. Now we need a video on why this bike is so damn expensive
@@rocketeer9183 he’s the only one selling bikes. Monopoly on manufacturing has a patent
@@Johntend0 why is bike access so privatized in this world
@@rocketeer9183 capitalism. As we argue the true enemy are the men in power who constructed and continue to enforce this whole enciremont
Electronics have also gone down in price in the real world. Tvs and computers are both better and cheaper than they were decades ago. Better manufacturing techniques could have dropped the price of potions in the games.
Explain the benefits of socialized medicine next
people don't die
More taxation!
@@Foxxnioxx The increased taxation would be offset by reduced healthcare costs.
Actually Drayden (the dragon gym leader in the gen 5 main games) is the mayor of his town
Very intriguing. I’ve never even considered the economy in Pokémon. Very nice video.
why am I watching a video about pokemon economics lmao
Beacause the never ending quarantines have made us go that far.
Now you mention it, this all makes so much sense. Never really thought that much about it until this video.
This may just be my favourite video on TH-cam. Such a great concept and analysis that I don't even mind the traumatic memories of my own economics classes.
Dude this was great. I love the pokemon world economy. It doesn't get enough love
One love ur stuff two technically there is two the two guys at the end of shield and sword I think & prince N are the only political parties in 25 years in the main games
Impressively well thought through video
GF: *game fixes
Papasea: economics!
I don't know how but everytime I want to figure some random thing out about Pokemon I just see you already have a video on it
There are mayors in Pokémon, So there is some politics. In Sword and Shield we also got to know that Galar used to have Kings.
And maybe the politics are made by Elite 4, and in Alola the kahunas could manager the islands
I wish this was a longer video
I haven’t graduated college yet but I studied economics I’m 22
(sorta) related but I had a shower thought once about if the Pokemon Centers are private businesses or if they're state owned and my theory is that in the regions where the PC and Mart are seperate buildings, the Pokemon Centers are state owned (Kanto, Johto, Hoenn and Sinnoh) but in the regions where the Pokemon Center and Mart are in the same building, the PCs are privately owned (Unova, Kalos, Alola and Galar)
"I lost my sanity some time in 2017"
2020: "I'm gonna end this man's whole carier
Favorite TH-camr!
To be fair, that’s when I lost my sanity too. Practically NPC at this point.
Nice video idea. I know that a lot of people hate having any sort of politics or economics in video games, but it can sometimes be fun to analyze these concepts.
It has been my belief for some time now that most of the regions of the Pokemon world, both in the anime and games, are libertarian in nature. There are far too many examples to list throughout the series. Training Pokemon for self-defense is encouraged from a young age. Peaceful and moral individuals like Ash, May and Dawn can go to whatever region they want without any issues. You can buy and sell many things freely, including DRUGS for your Pokemon! It is definitely not a lawless world though, as the multiple Officer Jennies and police/police stations throughout the anime prove.
When you factor in the anime it gets even weirder
For the potion thing. I feel like the simplest explanation is that with time the technology to develop them has advanced and the cost of manufacturing has lowered significantly
I'd say Economics is more the study of resources, than money
Cool video!
Probably the other regions had a demand in other item thus making other items more expensive.
Pokeballs are not made in every region. The Pokeball factory was in Kalos and is part of the X and Y story. Considering pokeballs are more important than Lava cookies, it seems like there is definitely free trade between regions.
However, shipping costs would likely be non existent as flying Pokémon could easily transport the load from region to region.
I think the one factor of the lower price of the Energy Root is that using it lowers the friendship of the Pokemon, which affects certain evolutions and the move Return. Other than that maybe hypothetically the plastic packaging, branding (?), preservatives and buffers for the medicine, patents, we could go on by comparing the pharmaceutical industry and natural remedy industry.
I always belived that the gym leaders and the elite four and champion are the defacto military.
Supposed to read my Econ textbook right now. I guess this will do
Your videos keep getting better... impossible.
In a video about pokemon economy, I didn't expect to hear the word "cookie" so much
Pokedollars are literally just Yen in the Japanese version. It even uses the proper kanji as well. The only games in Japanese to use the play symbol are Colloseum and XD weirdly enough
I always like to assume there is some kind of pokemon trainer economy with their own internationally agreed upon currency which is not connected at all or in a very limited way to their regular currency.
Nice video 🎥💯
An interesting and related topic of discussion would be the real life economy that exists because of Pokémon games. The value of any given Pokémon. For example what’s the perceived worth of a Mew? What about a shiny Mew? What was the impact on their value of Deoxys becoming obtainable in ORAS and Keldeo being obtainable in the Crown Tundra? Is a shiny common Pokémon worth more than a legendary? Is it worth more than a mythical?
Would be interesting applying this reasoning to the Orre region
I always assumed the pokedollar was a form of currency that's used in all pokemon league affiliated organisations, and because everyone uses pokemon they're money is basically the defacto for normal stores to use since your probably getting your power from a pokemon ran powerplant, they arnt in charge of the regions they definetly have they're own rulers but like do they tho
I like to think that each gym for regular humans take years to complete and that the protagonist is just a super human
Honestly I like this analysis much more than when game theory spent 15 mins continuously explaining that the 100 poke dollars is equivalent to 100 yen, or 1 usd
Japan had a vision of the future of non-stop population growth and an economy rebounding, engery efficiency, nature and land bridges connecting skyscrapers. The idea of engery becoming free and almost limitless, the computer back then and today leads one to a poke'future.
Thank you i have a economy exam tomorrow
Me after watching the whole video: .... Dafaq I'm watching :|
I don't think shipping costs would be very much between regions no matter the distance. Pokemon with Teleport make it pointless. Using the mechanic as shown possible in Pokemon Coliseum at Mt. Battle (or what the show implies of there not being limits), just use a few Abra to teleport from the region where its made to the region where it will be distributed, at least to the major city for distribution in that region, then go back.
In fact, with free transportation methods using Pokemon (flying in most games, Poke Ride in Alola, Corviknight taxis in Galar), even having to go back without teleporting would be fine. Then even with normal game mechanics, just have the delivery person avoid Pokemon centers everywhere but their delivery location and have different workers for each region. Like instead of them delivering everywhere, each specific worker only goes back and forth to one region, just have maybe a few different workers doing it to make it faster.
Granted, game mechanics have been shown even in game to not be the only way things work in world, with flying Pokemon being shown capable of flying places not possible for players, so its hard to say what restrictions there even are for using Teleport.
Which in itself does bring up the question of why more criminals don't use Abra. Just catch one, rob a place, teleport away. Build an organization by breeding them. Imagine if Giovanni had tried that, just grabbing the Silph Scope and teleporting back to the Rocket Hideout instead of struggling to grab it until you stopped him.
For the government in the pokemon world, I actually think it was explained to be the champion. I honestly believe that though. For the first 6 generations it’d make sense considering you don’t actually take the position from them. If you beat lance, lance is still at the pokemon league. You become one of the champions in the hall of fame but never actually take the title of reigning champion. For Alola, it’s possible that since they only just got an elite four and champion, that they have a different system of government. I personally think that the island kahunas collectively govern the region. For Galar, the league is seen as more of a sport and so I’d assume that while you’re champion in title, Leon is still in power since you wouldn’t be old enough. For Kanto I’m not sure. It’s already odd that Blue took the previous champions title and yet you can’t take his place. I’d assume it’d be the same as in gold and silver though. Lance would probably be in power as the final member of the elite four but Red would hold the title.
I saw your video and i completely understand nothing but the video was fun
4:23 YO IM A FRKN SNEASEL!!! HELL YEAHHHH! 😂😂🤘🤘
Honestly when looking at the Pokémon government I feel more like we only see the military structure in the games. Gym leaders are suppose to be the strongest line of defense for the settlement they live in acting as both the trump card and regional commanders of the troops. Elite 4 and champion are the strongest military assets and act as the deterrent for other nations and segments of the country from rebelling.
For what I have seen you have a draft like program where younger children are tasked to travel and train with a group of pokemon. The goal is to learn from the gym leaders how to handle threats or both different levels and types. If a person completes said training then they have the chance to prove their worth against the elite earning their own lace amongst them.
Looking at context clues given in the games most people to not complete the training during the time frame of the "draft years" and act more as a reserve force occasionally practicing trying to maintain the skills of their pokemon. Most find work in either special corps, or outside of the military structure in the private sector. We just play as the lucky kid to be an arguably above average starter pokemon with enough chances for our team to develop quickly enough to not be aged out.
9:35 there is an error, well assuming a lava cookie is 200 In it's native region, 175 is not higher that 200 which another error is said here the cost is 100.
Figure I'd point that out since little things bug me, but it's ok to make errors
I would take a guess that Judges exist due to the fact that in Black/White they do have Lawyers in Castelia City
great video, too bad almost nobody watched it
you watched it and you aren't nobody
Man this was so cool great video! Also everyone...LIKE UP THIS VIDEO!!
So what's the weird part? You just sat there and explained why things made sense, and not being weird at all? I am confused, lol.
Pokebucks are completely deflated in comparison to the USD if you have 345,000 Pokedollars, it would be around 1100 USD.
In real world economy potions and herbs won't compete because fresh water does the same.
Opelucid City and now Freezington have mayors
Yeah I forgot about Drayden, and this video was made before much was known about the crown tundra
@@PaPaSea yeah it's just really cool how Game Freak decided to release a new government official a few days after you released this video. Great job btw!
@@kyriakou8098 I thought the same thing the second I played it and saw him introduce himself as the mayor
I don’t have any solid proof but I personally think the Pokémon world has one central government that goes over the whole world and that’s why every region has a Pokémon league aside from Alola which is a very small region and even they started to develop a Pokémon league. So the government hires Pokémon gym leaders and elite four members and takes a cut of whatever they get from Pokémon battles (since the loser always pays the winner) it would work well since gym leaders can be assumed to win far more battles than they lose and even when they lose it’s mostly to someone they beat before and this fact is even stronger with the elite four. It also explains why the high level gym leaders who presumably win more battles have larger and more complex gyms since they get more money to make their gym and hire people to fight the trained as well. This explains how most trainers are children who don’t lose much money when being beat or adults who have a separate job since the only people who make any real money from battles are the gym leaders and elite four. The champion is probably just mainly a game thing to motivate people to attempt the league therefore losing gym battles but also being the champion of any region pretty much opens you up to almost any battle since pretty much anyone would want to battle the champion of a region. This also helps with military efforts since the government would have already hired the strongest trainers in all the regions as well as having a ton of other trainers in the regions being trained by the gym leaders and elite four that really want to become champion of their region essentially making them pretty loyal to the government that runs the whole thing.
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UGLY is evolving!
7:19 the Zimbabwe dollar would be super strong if one Zimbabwe dollar was worth $2360.90, 100 Zimbabwe dollars could buy you a decent American house in most states
But there is a hint to some higher power. In sword and shield... you meet 2 characters that are of royal blood and make you aware of it, it wouldn't surprise me if there is a major government for all the regions, but as the games are about catching pokemon and becoming a champion. There is no real reason to bring in any governing bodies into the pokemon games. I mean its implied that gyms and their leaders are selected which means some governing group must approve them too. Maybe not a countries governing body in that case. But if you are aware of how sports teams are formed for what ever sport you like, you can sort of imagine how gym leaders are selected and even what towns/cities get one.
Actually court cases are decided by pokemon contests
Team inflation should really be a thing
00:01:38 They use the same currency beacuse they're the SAME COUNTRY.
A "Region" is not a "country", A "Region" is a SUBSECTION "country".
That would also easily explain why the full Pokedex is called the "NATIONAL Pokedex".
A region Is many things. It can be a subsection of a country (say, Lazium in Italy), or it can be an agglomeration of multiple countries (say, Turkestan). It can also be equivalent to a country, if the country closely follows a historical region. A region can, again, be many things. Continents are regions, which have their own regions, countries, which have their own regions, provinces, which have their own regions, so on, so forth.
@@ummelofilo9642 everything you said is true, but in the specific context of the Pokemon games it seems clear to me (or at-least, most likely) that a "Region" is a subsection of a country, because of these facts: Each Region contains only a small number of cities and towns; All Regions have the same currency and (seemingly) the same language; The full Pokedex is called the "National Pokedex".
The disrespect on Wingull/Pelipper is not appreciated
my current fire red character has 6 pickup meouths, and l spent so long grinding for nuggets, pp ups, and rare candy, l found a shiny, and the 2 level 14 meouths are now level 30+ (able to evolve) and l have over 100 rare candys. it took a long time, but l royaly messed up the Economy in that timeline, with all the nuggets l found and sold.
And yes, l wouldn't heal until all 6 were out of moves, and yes, they all got payday, with max pp thanks to the pp ups they found.
The Pokedollar sign looks almost exactly like a Philippine peso or ₱