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Ive been waiting for you to join with ground news. i figured they would have reached out by now, im jsut glad you finally took the initive. thank you greatly for the mission your on, i respect it sooooooo much. its funny, i kinda can tell anymore. on the subject of SW, can we talk abit about High Republic soon? im excited for eye of th storm!
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tiny question: when the Empire fell, did Mon Mothma find ways to prevent those mega-monopolies from re-forming, or did she harness them, or...? thank you.
Yea thats crazy that they could scale their manufacturing process to that level and have a complete monopoly on the market oh wait, its a fictional story
6:08 The blockade of Naboo WAS legal. Admittedly pretty dystopian that a corporation can legally block trade and travel with a sovereign planet, but several characters on both sides admit, that the blockade itself doesn't violate any laws. What was illegal, was landing troops on the planet surface ie invading it.
If only they had video cameras on Naboo, then they could've shown the Senate that they really were being invaded by the Trade Federation, there wouldn't be a need to appoint a commission to prove the validity of Amidala's accusations and Chancellor Vallurum would've made a decision right then and there, and his leadership wouldn't be challenged, so no Palpatine and no clone wars.
Capitalism is bad, m'kay. Tbh, palpatine had the right in destroying this system. It was horrifically unable to deal with any democratic crisis at all. Its just a shame he was also so fond of...you know, genocide and such.
A lot of those corporations have A LOT of power and control. That’s why some people who support the CIS confuse me, despite me being a big fan of the CIS
@@blackblack1167I think people love the worlds that made up the government of the CIS who had understandable grievances with the Republic. The council and Military were greedy barbarians.
Wasn't one of point of the Clone wars to have the monopolies side against the Republic so they could be nationalised at the end of the war? Like half the point was to move to a planned economy so no one could challenge the Empire. I know disney kind of missed that whole point in their movies/shows (other than Andor) Was clearly what Lucas was going for though.
It’s easier to have all these monopolies seen as war mongers and deserving of being nationalized. If they sided with the republic they’d be seen in a better light as helping to win the war
@@adamallen7070 One of the reasons (aside from the engineering geniuses at their disposal) as to why the Kuat Drive Yards remained independent corporations after the war. Well, semi-independent anyway..
I can’t be the only one who would like an Andor-styled show about the corporate-industrial side of the SW universe, showing a lot of these kind of big events we care so much about from the side of the people in the highest towers. Corporations so large they become almost like myths, like gods
When I go play SWTOR, it doesn't matter which side I pick, I will never betray the one thing that AAALL Classes have: the credits-based economy. Any new lightsaber, blaster, vehicle and armor that is not some Quest reward, those are all something you pay for with the exact same currency. *Unless you decide to purchase Cartel Coins and support that life-sucking system of them goddamn Hutts.*
The Banking Clan were however amazing for keeping inflation at _zero percent._ The value of a credit has held steady for over a thousand years - just look at the sticker price of ships over that time scale as an example.
zero percent inflation is incredibly terrible and dangerous. 3% inflation is considered healthy give real life century average inflation hangs around 3%. When inflation goes below 3% the economy is not healthy and prone to explosive growth, but the end result is that the market always balances, so you're gonna get that 9%+ inflation to balance it.
You know one great example that could've shown just how far and wide corporations can go and how powerful they can get is the Tagge Corporation, or TaggeCo. They are in literally every conceivable industry where you can make credits. There's a slice of the galaxy called Tagge Space and they own entire star systems. It's wild.
I keep telling people being in the starwars universe would suck because there’s a good chance you’re gonna either get conscripted, enslaved or both by huge corporations
You know, Alan, what I find weird is when a huge company does something so stupid they kill its own market. Like what Unity did. (I don't know if you followed this story.)
Some companies think that they're too big to fail and can get away with some truly dumb ideas. Often this is due to bad advice and leadership. Many of those examples (throw in Bud light) get corporate officers that want to change what worked and create their own legacy.
Alan you do know that the federal reserve doesn’t print currency, the Treasury department does. They do handle our monetary policy mostly including interest rates for our banking system. That why Secret Service was originally a treasury department agency as they police counterfeit currency. Just an FYI.
@@p_serdiuk No, they hold them as an asset and influence markets, but they don’t make new money or control our currency. That’s the State’s job (geopolitical term not the common form used) which was assigned in the US government to the Treasury Department and the Mint specifically for coinage (for sure and I can’t remember the exact name for the agency that makes the bills) as authorized by congress. There’s a difference between what a national bank (Reserve Banks for the US) does/purpose and actually making, controlling currency. State/Central banks help stabilize markets (stock markets, bonds, banking/financial markets) and set base loan rates. The physical/actual currency is made/controlled/protected by the State (government particularly) vigorously so the economy and trade can happen. They’re both important to the economy but one at much more fundamental level for a lot longer than the other (currency production and central/state banks). It’s very weird and incredibly stupid for the republic to let a private and non state actor run both these functions instead of the central government. That’s just asking for complete loss of legitimacy and collapse of your economy and state.
@@mugi-wharingan8150 No, they may be kept there until they are disbursed out for circulation, but they do not make, control, or guarantee the value of said bills. They are made by the Bureau of Engraving and Printing of the Department of the Treasury with the change made by the US Mint. The Treasury Department is the organ of the government which is charged with the creation and protection of the US currency and not the Federal Reserve. The Reserve is in charge of protecting and stabilizing our financial markets. They decide most of our monetary policies which evolve our economy, but NOT the US Dollar as a currency itself. It’s like the difference between Hasbro and Target/retail stores. Hasbro makes the toys and retail sell them based on the market demands.
One idea for a follow up vid to this might be looking at the Corporate Sector and the Corporate Sector Authority. There's some pretty interesting stuff there, since it was basically an entire galactic government made up solely of corporations and run like a business.
Likely the same as real life post war companies. If on the losing side they would sell off smaller parts of the company to get quick investment money. Then the company would continue on or possibly merge with other similar companies. Krupp, which made tanks, weapons, and raw steel for the German Navy in WWII sold off or closed its military plants but continued to make steel and vehicles until present day. Mitsubishi made military vehicles and airplanes including the A6M Zero and is still a very well known company today. Kawasaki Industries which made the Ki series of army aircraft used the exact same facilities to create parts for their Ninja series of motorcycles (I used to drool over these as a kid).
@@randallsanchez3161 probably correct, I was more asking about what happened after the empire which had nationalized these industries failed. Like did the new republic restore the Nemoidians to the Trade Federation? Or did they cut up these companies and enforce anti-trust stuff?
@@fratguide9835 I would bet they cut them up and sold them off to fund their budgets. Just like how they were stripping Star destroyers for parts to get funding. It's clear the new republic was on a decentralization, deregulation and low tax path as a reaction to the Empire's control everything path. Taxation would probably be very unpopular after the Empire fell so the new republic had to get their funding elsewhere, so selling off every asset they could would make sense.
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In the 50's, boeing built there manufacturing assembly and repair plant in Washington. Think it was somewhere around the 80's or 90's they transferred headquarters to DC to be closer and try to get more contracts. And if you had a droid like R2, wouldn't you try to give him the best parts to complete any task? All we've really seen is him getting booster upgrades and a couple new casings. Wouldn't you want him to hook up to the manufacturers mainframe and essentially design himself the best body with all the tools?
I’m so sorry to hear that. I was recently discharged from the ICU after waking up from coma after flat lining and subsequent brain surgery due to a massive traumatic brain injury. Every single doctor, neurosurgeon and nurse said that it’s a miracle I’m alive. Crazy things can happen and I pray that will be the case for you. If not, Godspeed brother, may the rest of your days be nothing but peace and happiness. 🙏🏻
The canadian AVRO corporation was a vertical stacking. If they needed something for an aircraft... a new alloy? they bought a foundry and made it themselves. Engines? made it themselves... everything even the computers were supposed to be made in house.
The Corporations and Monopolies are allowed to run as long as they "kickback" to Palpatine, otherwise a couple of Star Destroyers are parked outside of the center of operations. Even Jabba had to deal with Vader. " It would be unfortunate if I had to leave a garrison here."---Vader to Lando in ESB.
I think that the Techno Union also have a Medical compagny... i don't know if this is true. In the game Galaxy of Heroes, Wat Tambor have 3 object that he can put on his allies : something from BlasTech, something from Baktoid and something from Chiewab. The Techno Union owns BlasTech and Baktoid, so i suppose that they own Chiewab also. I know that i did this search earlier this year and i found something (i don't remember if Chiewab was owned by the Techno Union). I'm not saying that they own this Compagny for sure, i'm just saying that maybe they own this.
A correction Allen about what you said about Tesla. They are not vertically integrated as you said. I work for an automotive parts manufacture, and one of our costumers is Tesla. They are structured in the same way all other car makes are even contracting out a part of their assembly process.
Because of the incredible size of the largest corporations, small businesses can exist by either being too small to pose as an economic danger to the larger or small firms conduct their business in the gray portion of the legal system. The Hutt Syndicate is large enough and illegal enough to be a problem; however, the proper application of bribes creates a mutually profitable arrangement for the corporations to look the other way.
Wait a minute here... An astromech droid: Something half the size of your average sentient, that can perform the calculations necessary for hyperspace jumps, do repairs on the ship while in transit, plus a whole host of other functions (many of which must have nothing at all to do with the operation of a starship, otherwise what use would moisture farmers on Tattooine have for one?) in addition to motivators, ocular/auditory sensors, and other things necessary for the droid to move through and interact with the world around it, but a navigation and repair module small enough can't just be installed in the ship itself instead of needing the droid? No, any navicomputer small enough to fit in an astromech droid can fit into a ship too. The makers of the C, R, and BB series either are a subsidiary of, or are in some way partnered with the corporations that run the shipyards. Or maybe they've got some dirt on the CEOs of these companies or something. The whole, "We can't build half an astromech droid inside our ships as part of the construction," thing is a scam to sell astromech droids. What, is someone going to tell me that the galaxy at large, which, more or less, enslaves the entire droid population, suddenly thinks it's immoral or unethical to put a droid in a ship where it can't move autonomously or something? They're bought and sold like any other appliance, and are otherwise treated no differently than we might treat our cars. We'll take care of and maintain it, because it's a hefty investment, but we're not concerned with its rights. I mean, effectively, what would be the difference between welding an astromech droid into its slot in the ship, and just removing the shell and the parts that let it move around from the droid and installing the necessary parts directly as part of the craft? Even at a glance, the idea that "certain ships _must_ have an astromech droid," makes no sense.
5:08 Hold up. Astromechs may be the navi computer for some fighters, but not all. The A-wing is incredibly small, and has a dedicated navi without an astromech, and yes I know it only has preprogrammed sets of jumps as per lore but that's not really ever explicitly made a point. And then there's Din's N-1 when he didn't have a droid socket, he seemed to be doing just fine.
Politics…pol(i)y means multiple, ti(c)ks mean blood suckle parasites. Thus, politics are perfectly rational, & make sense. As they are merely doing what is in their nature.
Alan, what do you think will happened if these megacorporations go to wars against each other like how the North West Company went to war against the Hudson Bay's Company in a war called the Pemmican War? What will the Republic do? Will they do nothing and let them solve this problem on their own due to the factionalism and corruption within the Republic Senate or will they allowed the Jedi to intervene?
I can't help it. I keep hearing that techno beat music whenever I see Wat Tambor, or hear anything TECHNO Union related *baTHUM* *baTHUM* *baTHUM* *baTHUM*
The Trade Federation was created to combat trade monopolies but became one. So the Trade Federation needed a trade Federation to keep the Trade Federation from becoming a trade monopoly. Just like governments everything becomes corrupt eventually and needs recreated.
The Techno Union makes sense. I myself am in aviation and the company I currently work for has the capacity to overhaul entire aircraft. From shops that specialize in airframe repair and painting, avionics repair, and engine repair all the way down to things like component repair and fabrication shops. I can say from my own experience that there is a certain level of ease when the ones sending you the work are all subcontracted within the same company and all operate under roughly the same parameters as you do
One thing I've never understood is how can the trade federation control all galactic trade if there are so many smugglers? Plus getting a ship is something any middle class person can do it seems, so the barrier to entry is much lower than say, starting your own oil or car company. I have no idea how it would actually exist. Also in the master and apprentice novel obi wan and qui gon have to face a massive shipping company that isn't the trade federation, and that book seems to dispute what exactly the trade federation is. But og question: how did the trade federation monopolize trade if there was so much natural competition such as smugglers and independent contractors?
7:25 Fun fact: "technical" was a term coined during the Chad-Libyan war, nicknamed the "Toyota War", because the Toyota Hilux was part of the "technical support" (as opposed to "military support") the US provided Chad. Follow up fun fact: light pickup trucks, or light utility vehicles are no longer produced because the emissions standards (set by the Federal DOT) for that class of vehicle is nearly impossible to meet, so all manufactures switched to sport utility vehicles (which have much more lax emissions standards)
Star Wars Corporations are privatized sector sized governments. Usually it’s loose unitary governments with executives and their proxies in all the seats. But here the corporations have a tiny civilian government body that just furthers their utilitarianism as the entire state is dedicated to one industrial purpose or another.
They didn't have simply one city. They had several, and transportation around a planet was not time consuming by any means. It's just that they focus on only one city. The place where unnecessary lazy writing exists is the military. 3,000,000 units (a unit has 100-250 men) is now considered 3,000,000 men, which in itself is a stupidly low value for a planet. A nation has 3,000,000 men, and their economy is ours but cubed. And then focusing the assaults only on one singular city making it look like the other cities don't exist are the big problems of star wars. They could easily show inter-city and inter-continent battles with 10 venators with not extra payment and mention at least a trillion clones, but the writers for some reason do not do that and have never done it. TCW was a fantastic show, but the way they showed the military was terrible. A venator was smaller than a city and you only needed three from each side to defend a planet. The Battle of Coruscant of ROTS was much more accurate. 10-15 ships on each side fighting over the capital city of the capital planet of the galaxy.
20:00 what you are describing is the transformation of Industrial Capitalism into Financial Capitalism. The Core is post-industrialised and too costly. The Outer Rim is industrialising and cheap. Galactic capitalism started in the Core and industrialised and then looked for new markets to conquer and monopolise. It's mentioned in the economic book 'Imperialism: The Highest stage of Capitalism'.
George Lucas knows these things. He is extremely literate in politics, sociology, philosophy, theology, and of course, his majored discipline, anthropology. The parallels and relevance between the politics of the Prequels and the real world are incredibly apparent and dense. Really, his political message is a socialist one - a political message against the old, outmoded form of democracy, the one that upholds the capitalist class and its corporate, imperialist establishment, and in support of a newfound democracy, one separate from corporate greed, empire, and dictatorship of all kinds - even the ones we don't notice - fulfilling a government and society for, by and of the people. This is precisely why in the Prequels, the rise of the Empire is a consequence of imperialist, fascist populism. This is precisely why in the Originals, the Empire is based on America, and the Rebellion is based on the Viet Cong. The Rebellion are the Socialists, the Empire is the Capitalist Empire. This is also what makes the Star Wars Saga so genius: in its ability to be politically universal, stemming from the Campbellian spirit of a story that appeals to peoples of all cultures and backgrounds, of any period in time, it is also immensely relevant to today, to the political world George Lucas grew up and lived in. The Prequels posits a warning - it seems America did not learn from it. It's a shame, because this failure to learn is precisely why people often don't know the political position George Lucas holds and makes quite clear throughout his films. I think if the general populace truly knew what George Lucas was saying to them through Star Wars, we would have culture far more open to radical, much-needed change. At the very least, we can rest in knowing that in the centuries to come, George Lucas' Prequels will be remembered and spoken of as some of the greatest works of art in history.
Three of the four were realistically and practically speaking governments in their own right. They did have representation in the Galactic Republic after all. Which does imply that the Republic recognized them governmental organizations. As for the first, if you really think they don't have lobbiests close to the Republic Senate building then you're incredibly naive. Reminder the Galactic Republic by the time of the Clone Wars was known for being incredibly currupt. It wouldn't surprise me if the Republic senators of Star Wars assisted in regulatory capture just as much as happens in real life. If not, I'd argue, far more then real life.
The Banking Clan proved to be the most resilient of the Seperatist supporters, while remnants of the Techno Union would survive the ar and the Empire it was never the same and the Trade Federation fell apart, the Banking Clan meanwhile survived the Galactic Republic and went on to continue as they had for thousands of years.
I was sort of hoping you'd go into the scale of these business entities. The Republic has over a million systems represented. It was trivial for businesses to own entire planets, often stripping them of resources or operating massive automated farms. Factory worlds massive shipyards are all possible and all capable of either imrpvoing lives or harming lives. Monopolies can function in an economy, but need extensive, an do mean extensive regulation to do so. Look at local power delivery companies in the US : they're granted legal geographically limit monopolies, because operating parallel power distribution systems is simply not doable. As such they're strictly regulated by theor respect states and can only charge so much for maintenance. In some jurisdictions things like electrical coops have sole exclusive right for both infrastructure and power supply. In these cases the total price is completely regulation to cover their operating costs. I will also point out for massive monopolies like the astromechs, there would inevitably exists a secondary market of used droids, which would limit the power of the primary manufacturer. Much like C3PO or T3M4 before it, people can repair and resell used droids and achieve quite reliable models. So much so, it's entirely possible for Rebel and non affiliated groups to gain access to them regardless of the interests of the primary manufacturer. Take Toyota for example. ISIS used their Hilux and Tacoma platforms to mount black market machine guns and other weapons systems for a fast light strike force against poorly prepared local security forces. There's a famous example of a plumbers' business logos from the US appearing on one of the trucks in Iraq due to shady resell markets. The plumber sold his old truck, and it was eventually bought and sold overseas. Given how much the Droid and tech market has stagnated for centuries if not millenia, tertiary markets could supply a lot of technology that would stay more or less competitive over centuries. Honestly I would think a Droid like T3 is capable of surviving if Huyang is able to live 25,000 years. (I still expect him to be a crystalline entity driving a mech suit based on a contemporary chassis at the time. Basically a more advanced and larger kyber crystal)
IIRC Astromechs can't actually compute hyperspace jumps. You still need a navicomp for that. They can however hold the data for a limited amount of pre calculated jumps.
@@АлексейМомот-щ7о Navicomps are too large, complex, etc. for a starfigher. Therefore you would pre-compute the data and upload it to an astromech. An astromech can hold the data for a handful of jumps. Some models holding more than others.
The massive monopoly in fictional franchises such as Star War's Trade Federation, Techno Union, Corporate Sector Authority and Alien's Weyland-Yutani Corp always seem over exaggerated where they could extend forcibly extend your contracts and brand you a traitor for attempting to unionize but then you realize Disney had its own government in Florida
Or that Google is currently responsible for 97 percent of all internet searches which doesn’t seem weird until you understand that this means they can dictate what the majority of people know. Hiding some information while placing forth different information. They have the ability to openly lie about current events and the vast majority of people would take them at their word. That is to say nothing about the fact that they all but run the city of SanFrancisco. I’m not even gonna mention BlackRock
Awhile ago, you did a video about how much a credit could be worth in usd. Is there a way you can find out the official value of each different credit chip or other currencies? Such as the amount of a single puck of Calamari Flan in credits, the worth of a each clone wars Republic credit chips, the Empire’s credit chips, the New Republic, etc. Did the First Order use credits? Such and so forth.
@GenerationTech That background pixelated boba/yoda/neon whatever that is is ridiculously distracting. I watched that thing trying to figure what it is.. You became background noise in your own video.
I could never figure out what Han Solo is talking about when he says The Falcon can outrun "the big correllian ships" when bragging about running Imperial blockades. What Imperial ships was he talking about because it seems like most Correllian ships are civilian cargo vessels and most Imperial ships are made by others like Sienar and Kuwat Driveyards
Kuat subcontracted places to build or assemble ships. CEC was subcontracted to build ISDs using their engines while having parts shipped to them for assembly. In the movie Solo you see some ISD's being assembled there.
You might enjoy discussing this with, now hear me out here, Preston Jacobs. Though some of his other fandom theories are controversial (intriguing enough to upset people), he has been a government/civil service economist & auditor throughout his “real life” career. I’d be fascinated by the conversation the two of y’all’s brains would conduct. Just a thought. Thank you for your quality video essays. You know you’re exploring fiction, but you bring up important ideas & realities in a time where direct discussion is fraught.
5:45 *tap tap* Ah that nice scene ^^ I'll restream SW Rebels last season of SW: Rebels with relaxed pace before Ahsoka S01 Finale arrives in two weeks. 🙂 [Three Years non Stop M+ Sub & goes forever] So so so excited for The Skeleton Crew.. Pst: Hoping that it's indefinite hiatus status be cancelled before end of this year.. 🤞
You speak of the real world monopolies; "and yeah, it sucks' an ad cut right in. an arm and hammer one that cracks lightening rather loudly then displays their brand logo. I think they are coming for you lol
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Ive been waiting for you to join with ground news. i figured they would have reached out by now, im jsut glad you finally took the initive. thank you greatly for the mission your on, i respect it sooooooo much. its funny, i kinda can tell anymore. on the subject of SW, can we talk abit about High Republic soon? im excited for eye of th storm!
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thank you for another educational and fun video!
tiny question: when the Empire fell, did Mon Mothma find ways to prevent those mega-monopolies from re-forming, or did she harness them, or...?
thank you.
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It's pretty insane that the Techno Union was basically building every ship and weapon used by both sides of the Clone Wars.
And kept both sides from sending spies to gather information on each other's ships and weapons
Yeah, when you're the only one capable of relatively cheap ships that are good for theri price, you're gonna make loads of cash.
That's why the U.S. sells to all sides
Yea thats crazy that they could scale their manufacturing process to that level and have a complete monopoly on the market oh wait, its a fictional story
@@BigManStanNot really the U.S. mostly U.S. companies that are military contractors
6:08 The blockade of Naboo WAS legal. Admittedly pretty dystopian that a corporation can legally block trade and travel with a sovereign planet, but several characters on both sides admit, that the blockade itself doesn't violate any laws. What was illegal, was landing troops on the planet surface ie invading it.
If only they had video cameras on Naboo, then they could've shown the Senate that they really were being invaded by the Trade Federation, there wouldn't be a need to appoint a commission to prove the validity of Amidala's accusations and Chancellor Vallurum would've made a decision right then and there, and his leadership wouldn't be challenged, so no Palpatine and no clone wars.
I will make it legal
Capitalism is bad, m'kay.
Tbh, palpatine had the right in destroying this system. It was horrifically unable to deal with any democratic crisis at all. Its just a shame he was also so fond of...you know, genocide and such.
@@ThePsycoDolphin change is always attractive to people, its rarely good
I had never realized the massive monopoly of the Techno Union
A lot of those corporations have A LOT of power and control. That’s why some people who support the CIS confuse me, despite me being a big fan of the CIS
@@blackblack1167I think people love the worlds that made up the government of the CIS who had understandable grievances with the Republic. The council and Military were greedy barbarians.
Yeah. I am definite pro CIS parliament, but not pro CIS council and military.@@blackblack1167
they probably wanted it that way
@@blackblack1167basically, support a chance for change (even if you heavily disagree with some parts of it) or continue being abused by the Republic.
Wasn't one of point of the Clone wars to have the monopolies side against the Republic so they could be nationalised at the end of the war?
Like half the point was to move to a planned economy so no one could challenge the Empire.
I know disney kind of missed that whole point in their movies/shows (other than Andor) Was clearly what Lucas was going for though.
(I haven’t watched the video yet btw so maybe they touch on this) Yeah, even in the Clone Wars the banks gets Nationalized
It’s easier to have all these monopolies seen as war mongers and deserving of being nationalized. If they sided with the republic they’d be seen in a better light as helping to win the war
@@adamallen7070 One of the reasons (aside from the engineering geniuses at their disposal) as to why the Kuat Drive Yards remained independent corporations after the war. Well, semi-independent anyway..
I can’t be the only one who would like an Andor-styled show about the corporate-industrial side of the SW universe, showing a lot of these kind of big events we care so much about from the side of the people in the highest towers. Corporations so large they become almost like myths, like gods
Sign me up
Czerka Corp comes to mind
@@Ahhhhhhchooso large and so old that no one knows when it was formed or by who
Oligarchy is evil (especially when people keep mixing it up with capitalism.)
The Office but instead of Dunder Mifflin. It’s the Techno Union
The truly eternal orders of the galaxy are those loyal not to an emperor, or a supernatural force,
But investors
When I go play SWTOR, it doesn't matter which side I pick, I will never betray the one thing that AAALL Classes have: the credits-based economy.
Any new lightsaber, blaster, vehicle and armor that is not some Quest reward, those are all something you pay for with the exact same currency.
*Unless you decide to purchase Cartel Coins and support that life-sucking system of them goddamn Hutts.*
@@MrDibara Them daggum hutts are at it again!
The Banking Clan were however amazing for keeping inflation at _zero percent._ The value of a credit has held steady for over a thousand years - just look at the sticker price of ships over that time scale as an example.
zero percent inflation is incredibly terrible and dangerous. 3% inflation is considered healthy give real life century average inflation hangs around 3%. When inflation goes below 3% the economy is not healthy and prone to explosive growth, but the end result is that the market always balances, so you're gonna get that 9%+ inflation to balance it.
The market does not always balance it has to be forced to balance., otherwise mayhem and a dark age ensues. @@granatmof
what in the Republic was doing the explosive growth?@@granatmof
@@granatmof They myth that growth must always occur is dangerous
@@keenirr5332 Rebuilding the galaxy and trying to expand even more?
Just imagine the mind boggling amount of credits that each corporation possessed. Simply staggering
Never less than 2
Yea but it kinda become watered down like Zimbabwe
You know one great example that could've shown just how far and wide corporations can go and how powerful they can get is the Tagge Corporation, or TaggeCo. They are in literally every conceivable industry where you can make credits. There's a slice of the galaxy called Tagge Space and they own entire star systems. It's wild.
The R6 astromech does have one key advantage over the R2: The R6 has the ability to hold 12 set of hyperspace coordinates over the R2's 10.
I keep telling people being in the starwars universe would suck because there’s a good chance you’re gonna either get conscripted, enslaved or both by huge corporations
That Thumbnail is fantastic! It really makes Nute Gunray, Wat Tambor and San Hill seem both menacing and cool.
Love these vid types you and your team have grown this channel into one of if not the most informative starwars chanels out there
Indeed 🙂
in the guide to warfare, there's a good section on the role of these corporations in the history of galaxies war
Allen you have the most smoothing voice on the internet. You bring down my anxiety so much
These types of videos show just how great this channel and what sets it apart from anything else on the platform. Keep up the amazing content!
Number One Star Wars Monopoly: The Jawa Juice Cartel. 🤣
Suka!
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You know, Alan, what I find weird is when a huge company does something so stupid they kill its own market. Like what Unity did.
(I don't know if you followed this story.)
Seems like that is the trend for almost all companies these days😢
What like the Banking Clan did? (Which the unity thing happened a year or so after the OGL bifocal with WOTCH and D&D5e.)
Some companies think that they're too big to fail and can get away with some truly dumb ideas. Often this is due to bad advice and leadership. Many of those examples (throw in Bud light) get corporate officers that want to change what worked and create their own legacy.
Hint: the ones dying aren’t the customers. That’s why it works.
Your videos are always on point. Appreciate your realism and reach of the lore
Alan you do know that the federal reserve doesn’t print currency, the Treasury department does. They do handle our monetary policy mostly including interest rates for our banking system. That why Secret Service was originally a treasury department agency as they police counterfeit currency. Just an FYI.
They effectively make new money, just not the actual bills. Most of the US Dollars in the world are held by banks and are never cashed out.
They're called "FEDERAL RESERVE NOTES"
@@p_serdiuk No, they hold them as an asset and influence markets, but they don’t make new money or control our currency. That’s the State’s job (geopolitical term not the common form used) which was assigned in the US government to the Treasury Department and the Mint specifically for coinage (for sure and I can’t remember the exact name for the agency that makes the bills) as authorized by congress. There’s a difference between what a national bank (Reserve Banks for the US) does/purpose and actually making, controlling currency.
State/Central banks help stabilize markets (stock markets, bonds, banking/financial markets) and set base loan rates. The physical/actual currency is made/controlled/protected by the State (government particularly) vigorously so the economy and trade can happen.
They’re both important to the economy but one at much more fundamental level for a lot longer than the other (currency production and central/state banks).
It’s very weird and incredibly stupid for the republic to let a private and non state actor run both these functions instead of the central government. That’s just asking for complete loss of legitimacy and collapse of your economy and state.
He knows. He's probably forgotten more about economics than you know.
@@mugi-wharingan8150 No, they may be kept there until they are disbursed out for circulation, but they do not make, control, or guarantee the value of said bills. They are made by the Bureau of Engraving and Printing of the Department of the Treasury with the change made by the US Mint. The Treasury Department is the organ of the government which is charged with the creation and protection of the US currency and not the Federal Reserve.
The Reserve is in charge of protecting and stabilizing our financial markets. They decide most of our monetary policies which evolve our economy, but NOT the US Dollar as a currency itself.
It’s like the difference between Hasbro and Target/retail stores. Hasbro makes the toys and retail sell them based on the market demands.
One idea for a follow up vid to this might be looking at the Corporate Sector and the Corporate Sector Authority. There's some pretty interesting stuff there, since it was basically an entire galactic government made up solely of corporations and run like a business.
That picture of a bunch of astromechs and BB8…it shows you how out of place he is (and the sequels).
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Did we ever find out what happened to these areas of commerce after the Empire fell? Like who’s building ships during Ahsoka?
I doubt Disney did the leg work
@@elsimain well of course not, we’d probably need a low to the ground series like clone wars to get all the information, but there may be something
Likely the same as real life post war companies. If on the losing side they would sell off smaller parts of the company to get quick investment money. Then the company would continue on or possibly merge with other similar companies. Krupp, which made tanks, weapons, and raw steel for the German Navy in WWII sold off or closed its military plants but continued to make steel and vehicles until present day. Mitsubishi made military vehicles and airplanes including the A6M Zero and is still a very well known company today. Kawasaki Industries which made the Ki series of army aircraft used the exact same facilities to create parts for their Ninja series of motorcycles (I used to drool over these as a kid).
@@randallsanchez3161 probably correct, I was more asking about what happened after the empire which had nationalized these industries failed. Like did the new republic restore the Nemoidians to the Trade Federation? Or did they cut up these companies and enforce anti-trust stuff?
@@fratguide9835 I would bet they cut them up and sold them off to fund their budgets. Just like how they were stripping Star destroyers for parts to get funding. It's clear the new republic was on a decentralization, deregulation and low tax path as a reaction to the Empire's control everything path. Taxation would probably be very unpopular after the Empire fell so the new republic had to get their funding elsewhere, so selling off every asset they could would make sense.
Alan, I hate ads and usually avoid them, but I actually watched your imbedded ad this time. Realistically, I won't be able to afford one of those cool lightsabers, but I like the idea of ground news. We really need it, these days.
Once again, standing up for humans.
True I never heard anything bad about ground news and it seems safe just not as on point as OWNASABER.
Yeah honestly you don’t even need to subscribe to it. The service itself is pretty useful in the free mode
In the 50's, boeing built there manufacturing assembly and repair plant in Washington. Think it was somewhere around the 80's or 90's they transferred headquarters to DC to be closer and try to get more contracts. And if you had a droid like R2, wouldn't you try to give him the best parts to complete any task? All we've really seen is him getting booster upgrades and a couple new casings. Wouldn't you want him to hook up to the manufacturers mainframe and essentially design himself the best body with all the tools?
The Sith also take over media companies.
C'mon, Rupert is Palpatine in disguise...
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I’m so sorry to hear that. I was recently discharged from the ICU after waking up from coma after flat lining and subsequent brain surgery due to a massive traumatic brain injury. Every single doctor, neurosurgeon and nurse said that it’s a miracle I’m alive. Crazy things can happen and I pray that will be the case for you. If not, Godspeed brother, may the rest of your days be nothing but peace and happiness. 🙏🏻
The canadian AVRO corporation was a vertical stacking. If they needed something for an aircraft... a new alloy? they bought a foundry and made it themselves. Engines? made it themselves... everything even the computers were supposed to be made in house.
The Corporations and Monopolies are allowed to run as long as they "kickback" to Palpatine, otherwise a couple of Star Destroyers are parked outside of the center of operations. Even Jabba had to deal with Vader.
" It would be unfortunate if I had to leave a garrison here."---Vader to Lando in ESB.
I think that the Techno Union also have a Medical compagny... i don't know if this is true. In the game Galaxy of Heroes, Wat Tambor have 3 object that he can put on his allies : something from BlasTech, something from Baktoid and something from Chiewab. The Techno Union owns BlasTech and Baktoid, so i suppose that they own Chiewab also. I know that i did this search earlier this year and i found something (i don't remember if Chiewab was owned by the Techno Union).
I'm not saying that they own this Compagny for sure, i'm just saying that maybe they own this.
This is truly one of the best channels out there. Cheers!
A correction Allen about what you said about Tesla. They are not vertically integrated as you said. I work for an automotive parts manufacture, and one of our costumers is Tesla. They are structured in the same way all other car makes are even contracting out a part of their assembly process.
0:14 The Federation of No Pants is the future of the world!
Generation tech at its finest! Keep it up homies ❤
Because of the incredible size of the largest corporations, small businesses can exist by either being too small to pose as an economic danger to the larger or small firms conduct their business in the gray portion of the legal system. The Hutt Syndicate is large enough and illegal enough to be a problem; however, the proper application of bribes creates a mutually profitable arrangement for the corporations to look the other way.
Wait a minute here...
An astromech droid: Something half the size of your average sentient, that can perform the calculations necessary for hyperspace jumps, do repairs on the ship while in transit, plus a whole host of other functions (many of which must have nothing at all to do with the operation of a starship, otherwise what use would moisture farmers on Tattooine have for one?) in addition to motivators, ocular/auditory sensors, and other things necessary for the droid to move through and interact with the world around it, but a navigation and repair module small enough can't just be installed in the ship itself instead of needing the droid? No, any navicomputer small enough to fit in an astromech droid can fit into a ship too. The makers of the C, R, and BB series either are a subsidiary of, or are in some way partnered with the corporations that run the shipyards. Or maybe they've got some dirt on the CEOs of these companies or something. The whole, "We can't build half an astromech droid inside our ships as part of the construction," thing is a scam to sell astromech droids. What, is someone going to tell me that the galaxy at large, which, more or less, enslaves the entire droid population, suddenly thinks it's immoral or unethical to put a droid in a ship where it can't move autonomously or something? They're bought and sold like any other appliance, and are otherwise treated no differently than we might treat our cars. We'll take care of and maintain it, because it's a hefty investment, but we're not concerned with its rights.
I mean, effectively, what would be the difference between welding an astromech droid into its slot in the ship, and just removing the shell and the parts that let it move around from the droid and installing the necessary parts directly as part of the craft? Even at a glance, the idea that "certain ships _must_ have an astromech droid," makes no sense.
5:08 Hold up. Astromechs may be the navi computer for some fighters, but not all. The A-wing is incredibly small, and has a dedicated navi without an astromech, and yes I know it only has preprogrammed sets of jumps as per lore but that's not really ever explicitly made a point. And then there's Din's N-1 when he didn't have a droid socket, he seemed to be doing just fine.
Hypothetical good monopolies would essentially be a for profit replication of national/international governmental policies.
That's politics for you. They're not to be trusted.
Unfortunately they can’t be ignored either.
He literally talks about companies, not the Government. It is the Job of the Government to make sure Companies do not get that big.
Politics…pol(i)y means multiple, ti(c)ks mean blood suckle parasites. Thus, politics are perfectly rational, & make sense. As they are merely doing what is in their nature.
Been using Ground for a couple of years now. It's the goat for sure.
I want to see a Lando corporation.
Alan, what do you think will happened if these megacorporations go to wars against each other like how the North West Company went to war against the Hudson Bay's Company in a war called the Pemmican War? What will the Republic do? Will they do nothing and let them solve this problem on their own due to the factionalism and corruption within the Republic Senate or will they allowed the Jedi to intervene?
I can't help it. I keep hearing that techno beat music whenever I see Wat Tambor, or hear anything TECHNO Union related *baTHUM* *baTHUM* *baTHUM* *baTHUM*
the opening thirty seconds of this are why i love this channel
The Trade Federation was created to combat trade monopolies but became one. So the Trade Federation needed a trade Federation to keep the Trade Federation from becoming a trade monopoly. Just like governments everything becomes corrupt eventually and needs recreated.
The Techno Union makes sense. I myself am in aviation and the company I currently work for has the capacity to overhaul entire aircraft. From shops that specialize in airframe repair and painting, avionics repair, and engine repair all the way down to things like component repair and fabrication shops. I can say from my own experience that there is a certain level of ease when the ones sending you the work are all subcontracted within the same company and all operate under roughly the same parameters as you do
what a wild point in time to be hearing that advertisement...
You really need to make a second channel for this sort of stuff. Call it Generation Techonomics.
One thing I've never understood is how can the trade federation control all galactic trade if there are so many smugglers? Plus getting a ship is something any middle class person can do it seems, so the barrier to entry is much lower than say, starting your own oil or car company. I have no idea how it would actually exist. Also in the master and apprentice novel obi wan and qui gon have to face a massive shipping company that isn't the trade federation, and that book seems to dispute what exactly the trade federation is. But og question: how did the trade federation monopolize trade if there was so much natural competition such as smugglers and independent contractors?
It's 'Industrial Automaton'!
Only OGs know about the name change
7:25 Fun fact: "technical" was a term coined during the Chad-Libyan war, nicknamed the "Toyota War", because the Toyota Hilux was part of the "technical support" (as opposed to "military support") the US provided Chad.
Follow up fun fact: light pickup trucks, or light utility vehicles are no longer produced because the emissions standards (set by the Federal DOT) for that class of vehicle is nearly impossible to meet, so all manufactures switched to sport utility vehicles (which have much more lax emissions standards)
"Corporation: An ingenious device for obtaining profit without individual responsibility." -- Ambrose Bierce
This is my new Favorite Star Wars channel.
Star Wars Corporations are privatized sector sized governments. Usually it’s loose unitary governments with executives and their proxies in all the seats. But here the corporations have a tiny civilian government body that just furthers their utilitarianism as the entire state is dedicated to one industrial purpose or another.
Monopolies also allow lazy writing. Much like every planet in star wars only had one city, big giant corporations simplify the world building
They didn't have simply one city. They had several, and transportation around a planet was not time consuming by any means. It's just that they focus on only one city. The place where unnecessary lazy writing exists is the military. 3,000,000 units (a unit has 100-250 men) is now considered 3,000,000 men, which in itself is a stupidly low value for a planet. A nation has 3,000,000 men, and their economy is ours but cubed. And then focusing the assaults only on one singular city making it look like the other cities don't exist are the big problems of star wars. They could easily show inter-city and inter-continent battles with 10 venators with not extra payment and mention at least a trillion clones, but the writers for some reason do not do that and have never done it. TCW was a fantastic show, but the way they showed the military was terrible. A venator was smaller than a city and you only needed three from each side to defend a planet. The Battle of Coruscant of ROTS was much more accurate. 10-15 ships on each side fighting over the capital city of the capital planet of the galaxy.
The greatest Fiction lets us look at real world problems, liberated from our preconceptions of the world around us.
Please provide a link to the video about the political ambitions of the Federation of No Pants.
Thank you.
20:00 what you are describing is the transformation of Industrial Capitalism into Financial Capitalism.
The Core is post-industrialised and too costly. The Outer Rim is industrialising and cheap. Galactic capitalism started in the Core and industrialised and then looked for new markets to conquer and monopolise.
It's mentioned in the economic book 'Imperialism: The Highest stage of Capitalism'.
George Lucas knows these things. He is extremely literate in politics, sociology, philosophy, theology, and of course, his majored discipline, anthropology. The parallels and relevance between the politics of the Prequels and the real world are incredibly apparent and dense. Really, his political message is a socialist one - a political message against the old, outmoded form of democracy, the one that upholds the capitalist class and its corporate, imperialist establishment, and in support of a newfound democracy, one separate from corporate greed, empire, and dictatorship of all kinds - even the ones we don't notice - fulfilling a government and society for, by and of the people. This is precisely why in the Prequels, the rise of the Empire is a consequence of imperialist, fascist populism. This is precisely why in the Originals, the Empire is based on America, and the Rebellion is based on the Viet Cong. The Rebellion are the Socialists, the Empire is the Capitalist Empire. This is also what makes the Star Wars Saga so genius: in its ability to be politically universal, stemming from the Campbellian spirit of a story that appeals to peoples of all cultures and backgrounds, of any period in time, it is also immensely relevant to today, to the political world George Lucas grew up and lived in. The Prequels posits a warning - it seems America did not learn from it. It's a shame, because this failure to learn is precisely why people often don't know the political position George Lucas holds and makes quite clear throughout his films. I think if the general populace truly knew what George Lucas was saying to them through Star Wars, we would have culture far more open to radical, much-needed change. At the very least, we can rest in knowing that in the centuries to come, George Lucas' Prequels will be remembered and spoken of as some of the greatest works of art in history.
If the movies were actually good movies maybe they would have learned 😂
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Three of the four were realistically and practically speaking governments in their own right. They did have representation in the Galactic Republic after all. Which does imply that the Republic recognized them governmental organizations.
As for the first, if you really think they don't have lobbiests close to the Republic Senate building then you're incredibly naive. Reminder the Galactic Republic by the time of the Clone Wars was known for being incredibly currupt. It wouldn't surprise me if the Republic senators of Star Wars assisted in regulatory capture just as much as happens in real life. If not, I'd argue, far more then real life.
What's going on in that apartment behind you?!
The Banking Clan proved to be the most resilient of the Seperatist supporters, while remnants of the Techno Union would survive the ar and the Empire it was never the same and the Trade Federation fell apart, the Banking Clan meanwhile survived the Galactic Republic and went on to continue as they had for thousands of years.
Damn That news thing from the sponser actually sounds really cool and interesting
I was sort of hoping you'd go into the scale of these business entities. The Republic has over a million systems represented. It was trivial for businesses to own entire planets, often stripping them of resources or operating massive automated farms. Factory worlds massive shipyards are all possible and all capable of either imrpvoing lives or harming lives.
Monopolies can function in an economy, but need extensive, an do mean extensive regulation to do so. Look at local power delivery companies in the US : they're granted legal geographically limit monopolies, because operating parallel power distribution systems is simply not doable. As such they're strictly regulated by theor respect states and can only charge so much for maintenance. In some jurisdictions things like electrical coops have sole exclusive right for both infrastructure and power supply. In these cases the total price is completely regulation to cover their operating costs.
I will also point out for massive monopolies like the astromechs, there would inevitably exists a secondary market of used droids, which would limit the power of the primary manufacturer. Much like C3PO or T3M4 before it, people can repair and resell used droids and achieve quite reliable models. So much so, it's entirely possible for Rebel and non affiliated groups to gain access to them regardless of the interests of the primary manufacturer. Take Toyota for example. ISIS used their Hilux and Tacoma platforms to mount black market machine guns and other weapons systems for a fast light strike force against poorly prepared local security forces. There's a famous example of a plumbers' business logos from the US appearing on one of the trucks in Iraq due to shady resell markets. The plumber sold his old truck, and it was eventually bought and sold overseas. Given how much the Droid and tech market has stagnated for centuries if not millenia, tertiary markets could supply a lot of technology that would stay more or less competitive over centuries. Honestly I would think a Droid like T3 is capable of surviving if Huyang is able to live 25,000 years. (I still expect him to be a crystalline entity driving a mech suit based on a contemporary chassis at the time. Basically a more advanced and larger kyber crystal)
IIRC Astromechs can't actually compute hyperspace jumps. You still need a navicomp for that. They can however hold the data for a limited amount of pre calculated jumps.
Then what's even their point?
@@АлексейМомот-щ7о Navicomps are too large, complex, etc. for a starfigher. Therefore you would pre-compute the data and upload it to an astromech. An astromech can hold the data for a handful of jumps. Some models holding more than others.
Can I just say all these new videos are making my life better
My dog is named Sibot, he's gonna be hyped when I tell him the Starwars company that makes C3P0 is named after him
The corporate sector authority is still a thing on almost all of the maps and worth a mention.... 🧐
It’s refreshing that a content creator is politically literate and understands that discussions around real world implications can be healthy.
You are one of the perfect channels
The massive monopoly in fictional franchises such as Star War's Trade Federation, Techno Union, Corporate Sector Authority and Alien's Weyland-Yutani Corp always seem over exaggerated where they could extend forcibly extend your contracts and brand you a traitor for attempting to unionize but then you realize Disney had its own government in Florida
Or that Google is currently responsible for 97 percent of all internet searches which doesn’t seem weird until you understand that this means they can dictate what the majority of people know. Hiding some information while placing forth different information. They have the ability to openly lie about current events and the vast majority of people would take them at their word. That is to say nothing about the fact that they all but run the city of SanFrancisco. I’m not even gonna mention BlackRock
ALLLEN!!!!!! I must know what that background song you play is called !!
Awhile ago, you did a video about how much a credit could be worth in usd. Is there a way you can find out the official value of each different credit chip or other currencies? Such as the amount of a single puck of Calamari Flan in credits, the worth of a each clone wars Republic credit chips, the Empire’s credit chips, the New Republic, etc. Did the First Order use credits? Such and so forth.
i thought at first that he said "one of the last sexy parts of economics is logistics", and i agreed.
Why isn’t Amazon on this video?
@GenerationTech
That background pixelated boba/yoda/neon whatever that is is ridiculously distracting.
I watched that thing trying to figure what it is..
You became background noise in your own video.
I could never figure out what Han Solo is talking about when he says The Falcon can outrun "the big correllian ships" when bragging about running Imperial blockades. What Imperial ships was he talking about because it seems like most Correllian ships are civilian cargo vessels and most Imperial ships are made by others like Sienar and Kuwat Driveyards
Kuat subcontracted places to build or assemble ships. CEC was subcontracted to build ISDs using their engines while having parts shipped to them for assembly. In the movie Solo you see some ISD's being assembled there.
Alans voice sound exactly like people trying to impersonate swaggersouls lol
7:27 is this a Toyota hilux reference 😂😂😂
Great and informative video. Good perspective. Thank you.
If the banking clan is "intergalactic " do they have a branch on Peridia?
Actually in legends they were active in other galaxie
I am currently a member of the Federation of no pants.
I'm part of the inner circle - the free danglers.
Oh no, I’m not brave enough for politics
0:22 mine friend is a fan of star wars, and a furry...
KOTOR first got me interested in the economic side of the sage. Czerka
Oh no, R2 and Choper in one room, goodbye fabric of universe...
Navigation is too big for a starfighter so we fit one on a astromech instead.....
Man, they really were pulling many $$$$.
I never thought of where the Jedi got their money from
“Blastech to provide small arms for some governments”
*The clones pulling up with a full mini guns*
That was Darth Plagueis in the thumbnail
You might enjoy discussing this with, now hear me out here, Preston Jacobs.
Though some of his other fandom theories are controversial (intriguing enough to upset people), he has been a government/civil service economist & auditor throughout his “real life” career. I’d be fascinated by the conversation the two of y’all’s brains would conduct. Just a thought.
Thank you for your quality video essays. You know you’re exploring fiction, but you bring up important ideas & realities in a time where direct discussion is fraught.
5:45 *tap tap* Ah that nice scene ^^ I'll restream SW Rebels last season of SW: Rebels with relaxed pace before Ahsoka S01 Finale arrives in two weeks. 🙂 [Three Years non Stop M+ Sub & goes forever] So so so excited for The Skeleton Crew.. Pst: Hoping that it's indefinite hiatus status be cancelled before end of this year.. 🤞
But if the techno union owned kdy how did they not know about the clone army? How were they not prepared for the GAR?
All monopolies are evil.
You speak of the real world monopolies; "and yeah, it sucks' an ad cut right in. an arm and hammer one that cracks lightening rather loudly then displays their brand logo. I think they are coming for you lol