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- Mall santa, carny, and CEO: How Homer Simpson’s jobs represent America.
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If only Homer had sold the tomacco-concept for $150M and not demanded $150B.
it wouldn't be homer if he didn't act unreasonable just for that to blow up in his face
if only homer accepted the 500K settlement from burns' hit-n-run on Bart.
If homer was smart there are TONS of times he could’ve been rich
Stonks
D’Oh!
I have no idea what I'm supposed to do with his information, but I'm glad I watched this anyway.
Learn about the plight of the American middle-class, and why the Simpsons so successfully appeals to so many of them.
We are all Homer J. Simpson
Learn about the horrible effect of privatisation, the consecration of wealth and neoliberal economic policies damning effects on the average American person.
Find out what happened in the 70's and onward to make the wages and productivity lines move away from each other on the graph.
richard nixon made gold ILLEGAL
How do i get a job where I just research Homer Simpson?
Vox
+Jun Sian Lee Simon Singh?
He appears in numberphiles
submit your application right here
lol
I'm curious how the average yearly income for a hitman was determined.
Well in the episode where he was he says he gets paid by getting to keep what's ever in the Targets wallet or pockets
@@Centurian-mt1ob He means how Vox determined that in 2:00
That's what actuaries are for..
2:05 if anybody wants to see
Body count 😂
boy, I don't think even the writers of the simpsons thought about it this deep
Or the people who made this video
The writers don’t “think” about anything, they know everything
They're not saying that the writers thought this, they're using it as an analogy for net growth economies, and the "middle-class squeeze".
But why did they show his paycheque? Like it’s a weird thing to add for the show but they did. They knew what they were doing for sure
@SMA2343 i very much doubt they did. They just needed a salary to show for the joke.
The ending got so sad out of nowhere...
"...In the arms... Of... the angels..."
"why did this happen to me?"
exactly what i was thinking :(
I made my mistakes
Reality is sad
Now look at Friends salaries and explain how they could afford to live in large Greenwich Village apartments
Rent control.
I'm sure they explain it in one episode. Something about Monica's aunt passing the apartment down meaning the rent stays at the same rate it did when here aunt lived there.
Maelyne Coggins in the last episode, they mention rent control.
This is correct, rent control. But it's illegal, since they pretend granny still lives there.
Also Chanandler and Joey are living together, because they can't afford an apartment by themselves.
Phoebe and Rachel always have roommates, too. And Phoebe has to live outside where rent is lower.
The only one who can properly afford to live by himself is a college professor.
Credit cards to pay off other credit cards etc.
I always wondered if Homer Simpsons has a in-univers wikipedia page, I mean the guy won both a grammy and was an astronaut
But he owns the dallas cowboys
He has
He also owns the broncos
Redem10, "You know, I’ve had a lot of jobs: boxer, mascot, astronaut, imitation Krusty, baby proofer, trucker, hippie, plow driver, food critic, conceptual artist, grease salesman, carny, mayor, drifter, bodyguard for the mayor, country western manager, garbage commissioner, mountain climber, farmer, inventor, Smithers, Poochie, celebrity assistant, power plant worker, fortune cookie writer, beer baron, Kwik-E-Mart clerk, homophobe and missionary, but protecting Springfield, that gives me the best feeling of all." Also a source is the "Picture a Day..." spoof where the last few seconds of the spoof shows jobs and other types of Homer before "You Kent Always Say What You Want".[2] According to an interview with Matt Groening, Homer has held 188 jobs in the first 400 episodes.
Homer *simpson* dumbass
“Three decades later, he’s right where he started” no wonder why the shows so likable, it’s cuz it’s relatable 🤣
seismic shift civilization collaspse? who knows why us white folks should continue or gdp it all sounds a bit last year ,,I do think 1 world govt is a good idea ..well if they can keep us alive ppl say cornavirus is a flu its not ..i fear I will see the worst case scenarios play out
@Abdirahmaan Farah B
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1.20 a.m
So tired, need to sleep
But here i am, learning how much homer simpson earned for his entire life
curious pug 1:28 bro
Same here exactly 1:20 am as well.
1:23 bro
I don’t need sleep, I need answers
1:30 for me
Vox is like a smarter and more watchable version of buzzfeed
being smarter and more watchable than buzzfeed isn't really that much of an accomplishment
lord flubbernaut do you read what you say
Toaster R
indeed i do
Buzzfeed caters to 12 year-old kids who think they're adults!
Tru story. I've grown to hate Buzzfeed so much that i get triggered every time I hear "nifty". Just typing the word makes me want to beak my keyboard.
Weirdly depressing...I'm gonna go get more coffee...
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and a pink donut?lol
Yet oddly inspirational.
Or maybe some Buzz Cola or a Krusty Burger....if you'll excuse me, I'll be at Orlando.
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This is the type of content I subscribed for.
But this is real world stuff.
That's due to globalization.
yeah. none of that 2016ish garbage
If globalization were the cause then productivity would be down as well as would the incomes of the top earners. But those numbers are up, the middle class numbers are down. It's an unfair distribution of wealth, plain and simple. People are working harder and making less money, unless they were born rich.
Doc, what I saw in the 80s was a passing of power from the WWII generation to the Boomers. There were many significant changes. Much manufacturing was "outsourced" to other nations. I see what people are able to do these days and from the manufacturing perspective "productive" is not a word that comes to mind. GE is in the process of bringing large portions of appliance manufacturing back to New Jersey. But they are not bringing many jobs back. They are automating. So the economy is doing really great, but the people are suffering badly.
This oddly sad video, makes me always come back to it, don't know why?
Why is it sad?
@@GingerBun cause it shows the progression of Homer within a a society where he struggles to overcome the barrier which holds him in the upper lower middle class. It's a correct representation life in America, where no matter how you try if your stuck in that bracket it's nearly impossible to get out.
Me too lol And that's because I saw it when they uploaded it. There's something special about it.
@ninegames That is true, but apart from the content I think the music played a big role in setting the tone of this video.
“Gonna get my Econ degree mom! Watch me do some analysis on MSNBC!”
*4 years later*
“Here, do scattergraph of Homer’s job in terms of class ....”
At least he's doing something more productive than working for MSNBC
YOUR JOB IS TO ANALYZE A FICTIONAL CHARACTERS SALARY AND CLASS STATUS! I WANT YOUR JOB!
For this one video it was.
surely baited you
I love how Vox dabbles into politics, science, statistics, and history. It keeps things interesting.
Build a resume and portfolio that gains a good audience. People do it everyday on youtube. Sadly when I was growing up, youtube and things like google ads did not exist so I did not have the luxury of using my free time to do it. I however was fortunately was young enough to use to the web to learn web development and programming which is what I've been doing for 10 years with no degree and I make above the average middle class wage all simply from building a resume. I hate my job though but I am blessed.
But, this isn't actually about Homer Simpson. I mean .. if you think you are smart enough to come up with a petty comment, you should be smart enough to realize what they want to show.
some poor interns had to watch a lot of Simpsons
haha
eh it's not all bad
You mean some lucky interns
You make it sound like a bad thing.
Robert Lewis It's both a great (seasons 1-9) and a bad thing (seasons 10+) at the same time
In the intro maggie is scanned at the grocery store for $243.36, the price of one child for one month.
Incorrect, the number was $847.63 until the HD intros, which placed the number at $486.52
All three numbers where used
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So that's what that says!
I love how he lists one of his jobs as "Smithers"
And “homophobe”
@@puzzles7413 Oooooh, know I understand.
vox is the only news channel that can upload a video about Homer Simpson's economic values as well as videos about the scariest world issues ever and have them both be equally as factual and equally as high-quality
Only Vox could know how to make the Simpsons depressing
Homer, I'm not sure "Homophobe" is a job.
HowlingSnail. Nah people get paid for that too
Homerphobe
king6238 🅱️omerphobe
It is, You can make quite some dough as a priest.
Tis, i get paid for it
Three decades later he may have the same salary but he's a completely different person. In one of the early episodes he got two jobs to pay for a horse for Lisa. In a mid nineties episode he drove his car into a horse and then wiped the blood off the screen with his windscreen wipers. Homer has went from slightly dim but likeable to a complete psychotic. Bart and Lisa are almost interchangeable now. Sometimes they make Lisa stupid or sometimes they make Bart highly intelligent if it fits in with the story. I'd like to see an episode where you analyze how the Simpsons personalities have changed over the years.
Billy R Good Idea
He kept getting dumber every season too until a season or two ago, now he's still din but not rediculously dim
There's actually a good video that talks about that, on how the Simpsons changed from season 8 onwards, it's called "the fall of the Simpsons"
they established Bart as smart in the 2nd episode of the entire show. they follow the funny rule of comedy, where anything is permitted as long as it gets a laugh, regardless of it breaking rules or established norms
SunaArashi how does that connect at all to the original comment
I know The Simpsons has not been the same kind of show for a long time, but I'm 35 years old and even to this day no other show has been able to beat this one out as my favorite show of all time. While it also might not be everyone's current favorite, it is without question, one of the most influential shows of all time. This is in addition to currently being one of the longest running shows of all time. Much respect to everything this show has achieved. It has truly been something special.
This analysis should've taken into account the value of the simpson home and whether or not an Oregon resident of Homer's income would've been able to secure that home.
I can't beilive I never realized Homer has such an impressive resume!
Damn I can't believe someone actually went through all of his jobs
Interns man, interns. Corporates like vox don't give a damn about the things those interns had to go through
Apparently, according to 2:07 I could make an annual salary of $120,700 as a hitman.
Well, actually, we had an opening but a john doe took that up yesterday. Contact htz.eboc@darknetgmail.com and check back periodically
Hit man probably has multiple meanings.
i hit on men, does that make me a hitman?
That's a bit low of pay for assassination. I know that if I were a hitman, I wouldn't take that kind of chump change. Frankly, if you're putting yourself(and others) on the line like that, you should get some serious cash out of it at the least.
Not that I have any interest in being a hitman myself.
I've always heard that the average hitman charges 10K per head. So if you kill 12 people a year, yeah.
The Simpsons was made to make you feel better about yourself because you can be like "atleast my life isnt as bad as homers" but economically wise, homer is doing better than majority of Americans today lol.
Yeah I always thought he was somewhat affluent and I did not see his home as 'modest'. That job looks very technical
homer simpson is no longer a loser. economics wise he never was a loser.
Vox is the only news company to ever go into THIS much detail and hard work!! love them
Vox, a rare pill of intelligent expression among a bowl of jellybeans that is the internet.
hellnaw
Researching homer simpson and actually finding something relevant and interesting to us today, over a 30 year span *is* what makes Vox intelligent, you dolts.
hmmmm jelly beans, noice.
+ahafsajdfnsks you did not understand the video
...nobody said anything about being useful. That was only you, not the op.
Did you guys watch every episode to get this data?
There's other people that have compiled lists of all the jobs he's had. It's not that hard to just type in the average salaries for jobs from a list.
Username checks out. Avatar... not so much.
my only question....
Why?
SimpleWolf If you can get paid for it, why not?
Mellow Yellow Reddit.
Well that ended with a sad note.
I swear I saw an episode once and he burnt a thousand dollars then said “I make 3 (or 4 I can’t remember) of these a year”
He is not exactly good with finance. "20 dollars.... awww I wanted a peanut"
1:37 “Smithers” is a job title 😂😂
The creators of the show probably did that on purpose. C'mon, they're mathematicians.
Numberphile?
Numberphile is my source, actually. I've never seen a Simpson episode in my life, but I sure keep up with that channel.
Well, I didn't exist for a considerable portion of that time, and the last time I watched television was at least three years ago.
Lol I can relate. Have never watched an episode either. Not having a tv makes a big difference, but simply not caring about the show.. Yea I can see how.
"three decades later he's right where he started" haha that's such a depressing line to end on
This video is why I love Vox. No other YT channels would even think of a subject matter like this.
"Thats a good thing" - bernie sanders (line up for food quote)
Nobody:
My brain at 3am: ah yes, an economical analysis of homer simpson
I'm really really impressed with the detail and effort put into this. Wow.
So as an older undereducated white (or yellow) working class male, would Homer vote for Trump?
I think Lisa might not allow him to. Flanders might. But then, I am not American so i wouldn't know.
Don't know about Flanders. WOuldn't he be more of a Ted Cruz-guy? (because of the emphasis on religion? non-american aswell, so what do I know)
+Phrancis5, I'd think Homer wouldn't vote
+Gorattin I'd think Ned Flanders would probably go for a Lindsey Graham :P
Homer just wouldn't vote, Marge would probably go Democrat.
I watch too much Vox, so I need Vox Detox... Oh! Wait, it's a sham. -_-
im a cuber
im a circle
be there or be square
meta
Bad joke
I live on 12k a year and after seeing this I'm ready to be a cannonball performer.
Are you supporting a family?
12k a year? Boi, you broke asf. LOL
=(
I make almost 30 and I’m in 1st year of apprenticeship lol
What do you do? im hoping its part time
Damn that last line was really touching all that for nothing🤧
2:01 Homer quited from his dreamed job at the bowling alley and returned to the power plant because he needed to make more money to raise Maggie, but he only makes less than 400 bucks a year more in the power plant.
He'll always be Mr. Plow to me.
That name again?
I like Vox. It's like WatchMojo meets SciShow.
That's just a worse version of SciShow.
But Joss Fong is so pretty.
But with presenters with less annoying voices then WatchMojo
It's like nerdwriter1 with more resources, workers, and a bigger budget
It has nowhere near the level of thought put into it though, and one of the reasons for that is that it has greater resources, workers, and budget.
'Upper Lower Middle Class' is possibly a reference to George Orwell.
When did I make over $100,000?
When you took over Mr Burn’s position at the power plant
“So I narrowed down Homer’s resume to 100 jobs.”
And I’m told your resume is supposed to be just one page.
It doesn't necessarily need to show all your jobs. Just what is relevant to the job for which you are applying.
Wonderful video, Vox. Keep up the good work!
Vox please do whether Homer would vote Trump or Clinton.
Obviously the Simpsons already did it. He would vote Trump, but he's voting Hillary to save his marriage.
Only retards would vote for trump, so.. yes, he would.
lets hope they dont
+Sid Grim 0.02 cents have been deposited into your account
no dont do that vox
Vox, the team that creates all these web shorts is amazing. Thank you so much
I think the family changes with the times. He started as one of those working class people in the 80s, who could still afford homes. By the 2000s, that was no longer possible apart unless you were middle class. The Simpsons also started doing much more middle classy type things, and having middle classy type things at home.
This is quality stuff from Vox
The combination of the music and the topic made this video weirdly depressing. I don't even live in the US. Doesn't the US have a poor working class? In most other countries the middle class is the one that is comfortably off, below the upper class and above the working class.
every country has a middle class, it's based on income and doesn't mean anything outside of economic analysis
If you're middle class and like to complain a lot, you're working class
Almost everybody in the US thinks that they're middle class. It's socially unacceptable to be wealthy or poor, so people either exaggerate or downplay their wealth, pretending that they're middle class. However, at the same time, income inequality is increasing, so the middle class is shrinking.
+4one14 There are people under the poverty line who have jobs...
Matt Sezer There is a similar thing in the UK.
Money isn't everything.
He has his family and I bet his life is much more fun and interesting than the average American.
hes also a cartoon
Fuzzysc They're also analyzing him as if he were real.
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I hope one day I'll be real
The Simpsons was orginally satire of other sit-coms and average American life, and it's still vaguely the latter, so I'd say the parallels between Homer and the lower middle class income are intentional.
I... don't think he was complaining?
Graphics were phenomenal. Like wow, great video Vox!
Yes this is the 3 am content I was looking for
My question is how they can afford to travel so much. I always assumed that Homer must earn above the middle class average salary if he can go to China, Japan, New York, Brazil, London, Canada, France, Italy, Spain, Jerusalem, and Australia (most of the time with his entire family) at the drop of a hat. Not to mention space AND heaven! : D
Japan: They traveled there as standby passengers, on the advice of the frugal advice guy. Homer stole tickets to his show from Flanders. The whole premise of that trip is they could travel for free, as long as they don't care where they go.
London: Bart funded that trip, with the profits from his $1000 bill museum.
Australia, the US government funded that trip, using Bart's dispute with Bruno Dundridge as diplomatic leverage.
Italy: Mr Burns funded that trip, so that the Simpson family could pick up his car.
New York: the bus tickets only cost $9 a person.
But in American History x-cellent homer opens a bottle of wine and Carl says "homer that's a 60,000$ bottle of wine" and homer says "woohoo I'm
Drinking my salary" also he said "why is my pay so low" before so THAT IS NOT HIS USUAL PAY
"why is my pay so low" is not literal, its humor... ever watched the simpsons?
That's because he's complaining about the newly added $5 bear tax, which he led the initiative for. It took his yearly salary from $24,655 to $24,395.
Actual nuclear safety inspector's make around $100,000 a year, but of course that depend's on if you are working for the government or not. private companies (like the one homer work's at) could pay less.
You forgot he has a SUPER insurance that pays for all his catastrophes.
as a life long Simpsons fan, this was impressive!
Vox is the best, their news website is top notch
I recognized the narrator's voice right away and knew that this was gonna be a great vox video, like all her other ones!!
Thats right Vox keep up with this stuff not that buzzfeed crap
Do more video's about economics in this type of matter i love em :)
make one on why designer can't talk
Lmfaooooo yes
Was recommended, watched it, now recommended, watching it, will get recommended, will watch it.
He’s supposed to represent struggling middle class America, this isn’t news
im only 21 and this really makes me think about the near future job market and the student debt that awaits me. this just makes me more depressed
Four years have passed, I'm in a similar situation except not in US. I hope you navigated your way out of student debt and got your dream job/career.
woh u guys did so much work....u should get a pay raise
Why would you analyze a check that he clearly said at the beginning is abnormally low for him?
Well, to be fair, they used it to determine his payment per hour, which would probably stay the same week to week.
Da Dodo -- Unemployed?? Forever???
It was only abnormally low because of the bear tax or whatever it was.
He said it was abnormally low because of the bear gas however the bear tax was $5
How about its the only time you ever see how much the man makes
Jeez. This is pretty dark. I love the Simpson’s and like these news-bites but this made me feel bad.
um he owns the Denver broncos that where gifted to him, case closed
ohhh damn I forgot that
So you worked out that Homer is just an average american, congrats
Which is exactly how they wrote his character and never hid it whatsoever
in the UK, the middle class are the rich, the working class is the poor and the upper class is literally the queen and the dukes/duchesses
If were back on the gold standard, both the working and middle class would be well off. Governments taxes and fees are destroying the middle class. The Liberals of this world, love to tax and spend. And this is the result.
The US still functions (for all intents and purposes) on the Ancien Regime model: The First Estate is the economic elite (1% of the population), the Second Estate is politicians and bureaucrats (less powerful and smaller than the First Estate), and the Third Estate is everybody else (>98% of the population).
The middle class stopped growing in 1980? When did Ronald Reagan become president again? Oh yeah, 1981.
if you notice you can see that the income tries to catch up to the productivity, then we have the 1st Bush era which does nothing to help it, Clinton era makes it rise quite the bit but with Obama and George W it just plain crashes
The middle class stopped growing in the late 1960's. During the Johnson era.
Did you watch the video or nah? Its growth stopped keeping pace with the growth in productivity in 1980
Trickle down economics and money in politics..
You can buy politicians if you are rich..
Bad inflation in the 70s...
Hats off to the people who did this analysis !!
The most amazing analysis ever. Thank you! ❤️
He isn't a college graduate? Then how does he work at a nuclear power plant? Doesn't he need a degree in nuclear engineering?
That's the joke.
You've obviously never seen "Homer goes to College ".
While Marge is pregnant with Maggie, Homer barges into Mr. Burns' office and demands a job at the expense of his undying and humiliating loyalty.
Pre-dating this, in a prior episode, occupational hazards are such a problem at the plant and Homer organizes a safety strike, to which he is appointed as the official safety technician.
He also has a stint in college following a nuclear safety incident in order to keep his job.
But, to answer your question, he works at a nuclear power planet because this is a cartoon that didn't require any kind of concrete lore in the 90s, or now for that matter ^_^
Even the janitor?
In the Frank Grimes episode Homer says he just showed up at the plant he didn't even know what it was
*Bernie Sanders kept saying the middle class is struggling and disappearing*.
*I guess he was telling the truth all along*.
*Look at both candidates*...
*what are they talking about*?
*Basket of Deplorable and Alien Snake*.
Everything -Science I bet a lot of people said that
God this is brilliant
a good old economics with simpsons oh vox you are the best teacher
Nobody:
People at Vox: Let’s ruin the Simpsons after they fell off
The music is absolutely brilliant. On top of the subject being astonishingly interesting.
5 seconds ago.....
I think k was legit first.
replace k with I. Congrats btw
When you've been studying so hard to become an engineer for years and you realise fucken Homer Simpson is a nuclear power plant engineer
0:32 tells you really everything you need to know about Vox. Quality > Quantity
what has 0:32 got to do with quality and quantity?
I was not expecting a video on the Simpsons financial situation to be such a bummer
I never felt so indifferent...
"Three decades later, he's right where he started."
Maybe that has something to do with the laws of making a successful tv-series. If it's good, don't change a g*ddamn thing.
Lovely, this is what Vox is about
Holy crap, these videos are so well made
Thanks for depressing me again, Vox! Keep up the good work!
Simpsons, simply a classic.
nobody:
vox: math video on simpson's salary and financial crisis.
math's related to science right?
big pp
Someone had a lot of free time, to think and research for that
Just when I thought this video was going somewhere...it ended! I wish this had been 30 minutes long. I wish we could have talked about solutions to this problem...but great video. The note is really just, more!
I believe that in the Kill Gil episode at one point Homer offered Marge 1000$, she said no and Homer burned the thousand dollar bill right away, later stating no worries he makes "six of those a year" - 6000$.