Pretty sure everything is connected and not backed up so all accounts went to 0 without anyway to revert back to the previous amount (meaning they can't remember how much each person had so they would have to go person by person and trust that they won't lie about their account)
I mean it's cool but it doesn't make any sense economically. The value of a currency is whatever people believe it is. All the government would have to do is say "This currency is still worth 1 of itself" and people could still behave as such until they fixed the 1 character of code that Rick changed (and it doesn't make sense why that variable he changed would exist in the first place)
@@KodakKid33 It makes perfect sense. Stupidity is the foundation stone of economics. Confuse people and they're liable to panic their way into an economic collapse, even when they could just say what you said and move on.
It's a logical impossibility to change the value of something from one of itself to none of itself. I can't believe people are somehow trying to justify this as realistic. The whole point of this scene is to screw with Rick and Morty fans who like to talk about how realistic the show or try to justify everything being totally logical.
@@tehcommenterofepic Yes, it's impossible. But what's not impossible is making people believe it's possible. That's all the economy is: belief. That's what Rick's taking advantage of.
I find it interesting how the blaster the President shot himself with looks just like a Glock with a paint job, as opposed to every other weapon in this show.
john titor Square slide, squared off trigger guard, vertical slide serrations, bottom of pistol grip has that fat part like a Glock, what features of an M&P do you see?
@@Federico-mj3si omg what? An analogy isn't perfect in a literal sense?? Dear lord get the news on the phone! Stop the presses!!! This is groundbreaking news and people need to know about this immediately!
Loved the Hungarian one here actually more than the original "Uraim, van erre egy roppant egyszerű megoldás" literally translates to: "Gentlemen, there is one, really simple solution for this"
ShadowDurza From what I know of behavioral economics, the value only stops existing if people don’t believe the currency will be valued. So as long as any sufficiently large group of people treat it as valid, then the scrap of paper with a 1 is valued at 1. For Rick’s plan to work, the Galactic gvt must be centralized to an insane degree and somehow communicate the currency value with no info gaps. Really cool idea. Fortunately the current economic system is too decentralized so even if the entire US got Thanos’d, the dollar would still have some value. Not what it is now, but some. Goes to show as complicated as global systems are, they’re complicated for a reason. Look at all the worries EU nations have had sharing a currency with a fluctuating value based on the actions of peers. Neither system is perfect, but by George, humans make it work. Can’t say the same for these bugs.
@@robbieking4070 Yes, i agree. But the obvious message is a (light and hilarious) critique to how our stability is dependent on the value of a currency, which has no value in itself. A situation like this (but without "intelligent?" space insects) can happen even in our world, maybe due to hyperinflation or other reasons.
Conor Gleeson I’m not saying your wrong because I don’t know a lot about currency and economics but if I think if the U.S government were to disappear the value of the dollar would be worthless I thought the value currency was only worth the economics of the government. But like I said I’m not sure so feel free to school me
6 minutes later Rick: All according to plan (ruining Jerry and making himself a hero) 6 episodes later Evil Morty: All according to plan (Taking over citadel while the galactic empire is weakened)
ok, to be real though, the easiest solution to "the one is now a zero" is simply: Do nothing! If the public doesn't know that their money is worth nothing now, they will continue to act and spend money as if nothing changed at all. Likewise, you can do the same and spend/receive currency as if nothing has happened. Something only has value if people say it has value, the economy would have been perfectly fine if they just didn't panic.
Wouldn't that solution fall apart when the stock exchange opens? Even with a singular currency it would be tracked by traders and in a galaxy the exchange should be active 24/7 which means the investors and such would know the truth before even the governement on account of how quickly they need to react to changes in the economy. It would be like the Wall Street crash of 1929 investors killing themselves only much worse, the news would report it until they realised they were not being paid the public would know whats up initially but then be in the dark and chaos assumes.
I'm not sure that would work, you know there's a reason why there's a variable value of the currency depending on the imports and exports to other galaxies, so, if the currency dropped to zero the other galaxy literly could buy everything in this and they will die of hunger unless they change their economy to be solely depending on the galaxy itself and that will result to a galactic war somewhen in the future.
@@oni-linkle4880 Not exactly, yes at first, but our society would either create a new currency, or just revert back to trading goods for other goods. Or like many post apocalypse media has shown, trade what has a surplus of useable value. (Canned food, bullets, medic, etc.)
@Nekid Snek9000 Until you and your followers were all killed or imprisoned by decent people within the first 10 seconds. Then the smart people will inherit the earth.
Note to self: After building a powerful galactic empire, be sure to include a terminal in the galaxy’s toughest prison made for its most dangerous inmates so people at said prison can access all institutions of state and topple the government in a myriad of ways
Also make sure that every guard who works in the deepest depths of the prison where the most ruthless criminals are, has a badge that can get them unquestioned access to every door and gate between that most secure position and complete freedom.
What's funny is that the Galactic Government could potentially recover from Summer & Morty's ideas. But toppling the economy? Well that's a pretty effective way to keep the government off Rick's back
As we found out later from Tanya, all the bug leaders ended up dead and the new leaders are half her age. Rick did a rather efficient job of throwing a spanner in the gear box. It was actually quite zen and kung fu what he did. Minimal effort for maximum effect. It was possibly the least violent thing he did all season, that led to the deaths of millions.
No, with how stupid the bugs are there were definitely loads of dead civilians. They should have noticed someone changed the number, and quickly and easily changed it back. Ricks plan only works cause no one followed reasonable logic.
I uh... not sure if this is as simple as changing the value of a currency to a zero. Because... well... its more complicated than that. So much so that they made an entire subject to be learned called economics. Mind blowing right?
Creating new money by selling valueless (as in, not profitable for anyone that buys it) debt of that same money and filling the "bag" of all the economic money with that valueless money, making real hard worked money in that bag untraceable and a minority, is how economies and most specifically the fed and eu are changing the number from 1 to 0. This is metaphorically already happening people and it's not going to look pretty. Note: the bag is just a metaphor to reference where the money goes, the economy
"Good pitches, kid. I'm almost proud. But watch closely as Grampa topples an empire by changing a one...to a zero!" _Destroying everything with just one simple nuclear-button-type click. I define it epic._
What I loved about this is moment is that it was making a point of the absurdity of relying on currency as an incentive, let alone a centralized currency. Everyone involved could very easily continue to do what it is that is required for things to remain operable, but instead resort to primative fear and fighting.
Leche de caballo Usually it’s “BUILD A RESISTANCE! TAKE IT BY FORCE! Etc” But in actuality, the best/most successful revolutions happen from inside the government. Usually involving other more strategical assets like politicians, soldiers, generals, bankers, Anything that involves the economy and military, the whole wazoo.
The animators are so amazing. The alien president explodes into chitin splinters around blue goop with brains suspended in it which then collapses. Crazy good.
Most people won't get this but the moment he materialized the butt was the moment Rick understood he could cast his genjutsu on the entirety of shoney's and the whole reality.
The beauty of this joke is that by changing a 1 to a 0, Rick did not destroy a civilization but collapsed a government. Those are two different things. Currency devaluation almost always leads to a change of order, but the people and their culture don’t just disappear because of it.
Nah, they released shorts showing that the Galactic Federation’s civilization basically collapsed with this. They even have a video showing how these bug things can cook their young to survive the ongoing collapse.
I like that Rick dealt with both his Government Level enemies in one move, I suppose the enemy of my enemy are actually the people you lock in a room together and let them do all the work
I honestly like the detail of the galactic president, he actually knew how to deal with the problem, if you look closely however, once everyone else in the office start arguing over their payment and such, his eyes widened, as in he realized there is nothing he can do so he just does his thing so to not see his government collapse
Back when I watched this without knowing anything about economics, I actually thought that $1 is literally the entire budget of the galactic governmenr
@@doppelhelixes gold standard is also a fictional value in itself. Nixon proved it by removing the gold standard for US dollar which lead to US currency being based in other type of value which where based on US dollar.
@@andmos1001 And how exactly that has worked out so far? You saw the crash of 09 and how bad that was this is why more invested towards precious metals mainly silver
To be fair this wouldn't happen with a fiat currency. Any glitch in the system like this would simply be ignored as a temporary issue until the computers could be rebooted. Also in a fiat currency the strength of the state is the true backer of the government's currency and the Federation is still the largest military in this version of the universe. A nice idea but if you spend more than a couple minutes thinking about Rick's plan it becomes completely silly.
@@JoshSweetvale That's why the U.S. military doesn't have a pay attached to their contract... it has a "pay grade" of which you'll entered into the armed services as but no actual guarantee of pay. So thus in a catastrophic emergency and economic collapse military members would still serve even if they aren't immediately getting paid.
@@TheFlyingZulu If _they think_ they won't get a payment, you can be sure they *absolutely won't* risk their lives, or even move a finger for anybody or any "cause".
@@Braxton1981 Nah, they would. Not all, but a lot still would. America has this weird soldier mentality where many, despite complaining often and loudly, would fight for what they perceive is right by the ideals of its country. That includes fucking over its own government if it's perceived to be anti-democratic.
How to collapse an interstellar empire. Star Wars: eliminate their leadership and blow up their ultimate weapon. The rest will turn on each other and split into factions. XCOM: eliminate their leadership and the rest will surrender, opening up opportunities for diplomacy and reparations. Rick and Morty: speed-run capitalism.
There's nothing such a switch to configure the value of a currency unless the economy of the galaxy is corrupted because its truly depends on the imports and exports from/to other galaxies so, there's a chance that the president killed himself because of the public rage or maybe he can transfer his brain to another bug like Rick did in of the episodes.
I'd pay 8,000 USD for someone to un-alive me. I hate the reality we live in. We live in a world where rent and other utilities are expensive, the wrong people are in jail when the real criminals are out there. There's injustice, people take advantage of other people, certain people try to rob other people. Who knows how many wars are going on right now? There are cities where lots of drug addicts and homeless are that can't be helped/taken care of.
I dont know anything about how stuff like this works but if Rick could change the value of the currency like that cant people working for the government just change it back again? Or is that something only a super genius like Rick is supposed to be able to do?
Since that's there only currency value similar to stock marketing, he prob got rid of it. So that meant they cant buy it back because they're broke in general.
1:01 But you're right. Actually they could. ...For money. But now 1 unit of the currency is worth 0. Changing its worth back to the worth of 1 unit gives 0. But really you'd like to watch Mr. Robot series.
Essentially, the idea is that since the closest access to it is a warzone, and any other access would require effort, their ingrained mindset of value extraction means they refuse to work without being paid, meaning that if their wages are currently nothing, none of them are willing to put in the work to fix the problem. Its an indictment of the current atmosphere of the government putting all its emphasis on transactions rather than other forms of value, and of wage slavery in general creating a fundamentally fragile society. No, I do not have a high IQ, thank you for asking, its average
If they were smart the president would've just said "make an announcement saying it's a computer error and see if we can't discover the cause of the problem while martial law is declared"
@@cugeltheclever3766 When economies crash among other systems collapses happen: like the south sea bubble, the great depression and the recession Also note the microcosm of the AAA game industry
@@brano13177 just because a country has an economic crash that doesn't mean capitalism has collapses on itself, periodic economic depresions are normal and have been ocurring since the dawn of civilazation.
@@cugeltheclever3766 an economic crash is by definition a collapse... not to mention capitalism is a system based off of mercantilism, plutocratic exploitation, of people's, resources, communities, societies, ect. And falsehood on the claims that "it's normal since the dawn of civilization" because that asserts, falsely, that capitalism as an economic doctrine had always existed in human history; when in reality it hasn't and never had until much recently in human history. What humanity used before was the barter system and several other systems and forms of mercantilism before capitalism came to be. Lastly; for profit prisons are just Capitalist gulags.
When i was in boot camp our drill instructor told us "your paycheck is guaranteed because the govt doesnt want a mutiny. Of all the people, agencies and depts in the US, the military has the best chance to succeed in overthrowing the govt, so they always pay their military on time".
Which totally doesn't make sense, he didn't change how much money is in the system, or how fast it is moving. Fiat currency is based on trust and Rick didn't change how much trust the citizens had in it, he didn't change how much individual stores and merchants charge for goods and services. It's kinda funny but makes no sense at all.
Stargate Atlantis did that during its final season. It was called the Attero Device. A galaxy-wide FTL jammer. Could be tuned to different types of FTL, and destroyed any ship that turned on their drive. Unfortunately it overcharged the eponymous Stargates, which started exploding too. Too bad so sad.
@filled9971 makes me wonder why the capability to control something that important and potentially damaging was in a Federation Prison and not the Government building or whatever Capital they had
I can totally picture Rick casually obliterating an entire universe just for kicks-maybe as part of some bizarre experiment or just because he’s bored-and then hopping over to the next alternate universe like nothing happened.
“Their payment is the honor they’ll feel to serve their-wait whose paying me to yell at this guy” Wish I could have a job where I could be paid to literally do nothing except yell at people
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The bug president didnt even use a space gun. He just used a Glock with a snazzy paint job.
Mans got taste
had no money couldn't afford any better
Tbf if you look closely, it does look like a laser is being shot from it
@@Anonymous-yq6wy Just a normal glock then.
Yes because normal glocks turn you into jelly
“Reprogram their portals to disintegrate themselves.” This Morty had the idea, Evil Morty actually did it
I’m surprised more people didn’t catch this
So if we come across an evil Summer, she’ll trick people into nuking each other for real.
Clever foreshadow
Holy shit
same person same train of though, are they not ? ...
“Gentlemen gentlemen, there is a solution here you aren’t seeing.” I think they all saw the solution, they just didn’t have the equipment.
Eliert Xanthos This is the only reply you’ll get for this comment.
This is the second reply youll get
@@rammus804 Shall we keep counting?
@@olstar18 why not? Obviously i have nothing else to do hahah
I thought it was
you nutsy.
...
President: don’t worry guys
President: I have a plan
*President has left the game*
lmao
President ⚔President (Friendly fire)
VIP President took the easy way out.
*permanently*
..the President of Afghanistan lmao
"There's a solution here you're not seeing."
Me; "Yeah, just reset the value back to 1."
Who Is goin to pay for that.
@@luckycobra3986
"I can answer that, for money."
Pretty sure everything is connected and not backed up so all accounts went to 0 without anyway to revert back to the previous amount (meaning they can't remember how much each person had so they would have to go person by person and trust that they won't lie about their account)
@@SuperFang1 You'll get paid after- wait, who's paying me to reason with you?
@@AlaskanGhost I can answer that...
*For Likes...*
Ah yes, the most boring, yet effective way to topple a government
*economics ftw*
I mean it's cool but it doesn't make any sense economically. The value of a currency is whatever people believe it is. All the government would have to do is say "This currency is still worth 1 of itself" and people could still behave as such until they fixed the 1 character of code that Rick changed (and it doesn't make sense why that variable he changed would exist in the first place)
@@KodakKid33 It makes perfect sense. Stupidity is the foundation stone of economics. Confuse people and they're liable to panic their way into an economic collapse, even when they could just say what you said and move on.
It's a logical impossibility to change the value of something from one of itself to none of itself. I can't believe people are somehow trying to justify this as realistic.
The whole point of this scene is to screw with Rick and Morty fans who like to talk about how realistic the show or try to justify everything being totally logical.
@@rtozier2011 bruh
@@tehcommenterofepic Yes, it's impossible. But what's not impossible is making people believe it's possible. That's all the economy is: belief. That's what Rick's taking advantage of.
1:06 hitler at the end of WW2 be like
Didn't he use cyanide?
J. Busch you could say it was his final solution
@@SSName he swallowed a cyanide pill then shot himself in the head just to be safe
J. Busch he took a cyanide pill and blew his brains out just to be safe
poppyface whoa. We both said almost the exact same thing. Cool
The intergalactic printing money machine.
The Weimar republic is Almost proud of you
That is nonsense, because you can print all the money that do you want but it still worth 0 of itself
@@Degoxxfull that's the joke, printing money leads to inflation
@@killian9314 I doubt that He was being sarcastic
BRRRRRRRR
i always thought this would have been a programming joke and changing a 1 to a 0 would break everything
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Me too.
@@joethomas8464 tf2 lol
LASER GLOCK
you're not too far off
He who controls the pants controls the universe!
*galaxy
once I heard this from the man named Kane :D
*toiletpaper
Give me your jacket!!!
And now Wrangler is making Death Stars
I love how the bug president didn’t actually have penetration from the round, it just shattered his exoskeleton and he melts into a puddle of goop
That’s not correct you can clearly see in that frame that the bullet went out the other side along side a stream of liquid
And how calmly he killed himself
@@charlottewalnut3118 and AFTER that the exoskeleton explodes 😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣
that's sort of how it works with humans too
I can actually see Rick destroying the universe with ease just for the hell of it and then move to the next alternate universe.
knowing him he's probably done that already
@@vanguardplays3418
Several times over, probably...
Asswhole barely ever need a reason
@@vanguardplays3418 Was going to say. He probably does it for sport.
Well he actually can't universe hop too much. He said so in "Rick potion No. 9"
Imagine your psychiatrist going "There's a solution here you're not seeing" before shooting themselves in the head
*take the gun and use it*
Does it cover medical and life insurance?
@@nicolasachille4371 I can answer that… for money.
Is my insurance covering these sessions?
AND YET YOU STILL PAY
Favorite lines
"Wait who's paying me to yell at this guy?"
"I can answer that... for money!"
xD
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"Gimme your jacket!"
"Gimme those pants!"
Intergalactic Jared Kushner can answer that question ...for money
Employe of the month lady's and gentlemen
"For extra *FOOD* "
I find it interesting how the blaster the President shot himself with looks just like a Glock with a paint job, as opposed to every other weapon in this show.
It looks more like a S&W M&P 9MM to me.
john titor Square slide, squared off trigger guard, vertical slide serrations, bottom of pistol grip has that fat part like a Glock, what features of an M&P do you see?
To quote another comment in this video, to him its an alien gun, a collectible like Zulu spears
mortaché de muerte But if it were a regular Glock a bullet would’ve gone through his head not a plasma bolt.
@@JohnW-yv6yp of course its modified, just like how modern reenacters use smokeless powder in their muskets :p
0:26 morty’s suggestion is really close to the season 5 finale
0:14 " Freeze!"
" Employee of the month, ladies and gentlemen."-Rick Sanchez.
Perfect clip to link to geniuses making the argument that police need to "wait the extra second to ensure it is a gun."
Not that at all stupid fuck. Talk about making something out of nothing.
@@LeiRaion Yes, a clip from a cartoon makes the perfect argument, of course.
@@Federico-mj3si omg what? An analogy isn't perfect in a literal sense?? Dear lord get the news on the phone! Stop the presses!!! This is groundbreaking news and people need to know about this immediately!
@@LeiRaion Dude, it's not a good argument, it's a fucking clip from a show! It means nothing irl.
"I can answer that...... for money!"
-Politician in Nutshells
And this is why floating exchange rates are the stabilizer of society.
The Generalissimo
who needs that when you have the subjective theory of value
@@alphamega8660 like pants.
Gavin Wheeldon what? lmfao
@@alphamega8660 as in pants being the subjective new item of measuring value haha
@Quest Tzecai The topic here is about currency, labor is irrelevant here.
"There's a solution here you're not seeing" always gets me
I was in tears laughing after that
Loved the Hungarian one here actually more than the original
"Uraim, van erre egy roppant egyszerű megoldás" literally translates to:
"Gentlemen, there is one, really simple solution for this"
There is literally no difference
The Hungarian one has toppled many government economies lol
Miert kaptal ennyi like ot? Vmikor tali?
@@flyde6521 What are you talking about it's in Hungarian /s
Imagine watching Rick and Morty dubbed, Jesus .... You dub everything, then you deserve to not know other languages, bosmeg
Honestly, if the entirety of a civilization depended on something so fragile and singular, then it didn't deserve to exist in the first place.
ShadowDurza From what I know of behavioral economics, the value only stops existing if people don’t believe the currency will be valued. So as long as any sufficiently large group of people treat it as valid, then the scrap of paper with a 1 is valued at 1. For Rick’s plan to work, the Galactic gvt must be centralized to an insane degree and somehow communicate the currency value with no info gaps. Really cool idea.
Fortunately the current economic system is too decentralized so even if the entire US got Thanos’d, the dollar would still have some value. Not what it is now, but some. Goes to show as complicated as global systems are, they’re complicated for a reason. Look at all the worries EU nations have had sharing a currency with a fluctuating value based on the actions of peers. Neither system is perfect, but by George, humans make it work. Can’t say the same for these bugs.
@@conorgleeson2453 maybe that's why Rick used this plan. It never would have worked on a human government but these guys ain't human are they?
@@robbieking4070 Yes, i agree. But the obvious message is a (light and hilarious) critique to how our stability is dependent on the value of a currency, which has no value in itself. A situation like this (but without "intelligent?" space insects) can happen even in our world, maybe due to hyperinflation or other reasons.
@@apc9714 Very true and kinda scary.
Conor Gleeson I’m not saying your wrong because I don’t know a lot about currency and economics but if I think if the U.S government were to disappear the value of the dollar would be worthless I thought the value currency was only worth the economics of the government.
But like I said I’m not sure so feel free to school me
6 minutes later
Rick: All according to plan
(ruining Jerry and making himself a hero)
6 episodes later
Evil Morty: All according to plan
(Taking over citadel while the galactic empire is weakened)
One season later destroying the Citadel and crushing the only superpower in the Multiverse
ok, to be real though, the easiest solution to "the one is now a zero" is simply: Do nothing! If the public doesn't know that their money is worth nothing now, they will continue to act and spend money as if nothing changed at all. Likewise, you can do the same and spend/receive currency as if nothing has happened. Something only has value if people say it has value, the economy would have been perfectly fine if they just didn't panic.
Wouldn't that solution fall apart when the stock exchange opens? Even with a singular currency it would be tracked by traders and in a galaxy the exchange should be active 24/7 which means the investors and such would know the truth before even the governement on account of how quickly they need to react to changes in the economy. It would be like the Wall Street crash of 1929 investors killing themselves only much worse, the news would report it until they realised they were not being paid the public would know whats up initially but then be in the dark and chaos assumes.
I'm not sure that would work, you know there's a reason why there's a variable value of the currency depending on the imports and exports to other galaxies, so, if the currency dropped to zero the other galaxy literly could buy everything in this and they will die of hunger unless they change their economy to be solely depending on the galaxy itself and that will result to a galactic war somewhen in the future.
A man believes in money because his neighbour does and the neighbour Bellevue in money because the man does.
@@dakshbadal7522 Change that to time.
@@zytolen5356 Tell me time is subjective after you die from old age.
"Or set their military portals to disintegrate their entire space fleet"
Huh. That's relevant now
What’s crazy is that rick is smart knowing that their own mentality would destroy themselves
Nah,this would work on earth.Imagine money becoming worthless in a second.
@@oni-linkle4880 Not exactly, yes at first, but our society would either create a new currency, or just revert back to trading goods for other goods. Or like many post apocalypse media has shown, trade what has a surplus of useable value. (Canned food, bullets, medic, etc.)
@Nekid Snek9000 Until you and your followers were all killed or imprisoned by decent people within the first 10 seconds. Then the smart people will inherit the earth.
Well, he is the smartest mammal in the galaxy.
@@rtozier2011 Decent people stop being decent as soon as things go to hell.
“Employee of the month ladies and gentlemen”
Note to self: After building a powerful galactic empire, be sure to include a terminal in the galaxy’s toughest prison made for its most dangerous inmates so people at said prison can access all institutions of state and topple the government in a myriad of ways
I think Rick just hacked it, but yes, it is stupid
Also make sure that every guard who works in the deepest depths of the prison where the most ruthless criminals are, has a badge that can get them unquestioned access to every door and gate between that most secure position and complete freedom.
The way he rubbed his claws together like thumb and finger when he said "I can answer that , for money." 😂
0:16 that made laugh so hard
0:24 all Morty's think alike... Evil Morty's plan was basically this.
"He who control the pants control the galaxy!"
What's funny is that the Galactic Government could potentially recover from Summer & Morty's ideas. But toppling the economy? Well that's a pretty effective way to keep the government off Rick's back
As we found out later from Tanya, all the bug leaders ended up dead and the new leaders are half her age.
Rick did a rather efficient job of throwing a spanner in the gear box.
It was actually quite zen and kung fu what he did. Minimal effort for maximum effect. It was possibly the least violent thing he did all season, that led to the deaths of millions.
No, with how stupid the bugs are there were definitely loads of dead civilians.
They should have noticed someone changed the number, and quickly and easily changed it back.
Ricks plan only works cause no one followed reasonable logic.
0:58 Wait who’s paying me to yell at this guy
I can answer that...for money.
Gentlemen, Gentlemen, Gentlemen. There’s a solution here you’re not seeing.
🪰💥🔫
💀🪰
GIVE ME YOUR JACKET!
Everyone in government and their affiliates please take this wise advise.
like what the president bug did?
Because the FED can literally just change the value of money by accessing an excel spreadsheet and changing a specific cell to ‘0.’ Grow up
I uh... not sure if this is as simple as changing the value of a currency to a zero. Because... well... its more complicated than that. So much so that they made an entire subject to be learned called economics. Mind blowing right?
Creating new money by selling valueless (as in, not profitable for anyone that buys it) debt of that same money and filling the "bag" of all the economic money with that valueless money, making real hard worked money in that bag untraceable and a minority, is how economies and most specifically the fed and eu are changing the number from 1 to 0. This is metaphorically already happening people and it's not going to look pretty.
Note: the bag is just a metaphor to reference where the money goes, the economy
"Good pitches, kid. I'm almost proud. But watch closely as Grampa topples an empire by changing a one...to a zero!"
_Destroying everything with just one simple nuclear-button-type click. I define it epic._
The only way he could be more efficient would have been by the Power of Doing Nothing.
You'd be surprised how effective that can be.
What I loved about this is moment is that it was making a point of the absurdity of relying on currency as an incentive, let alone a centralized currency.
Everyone involved could very easily continue to do what it is that is required for things to remain operable, but instead resort to primative fear and fighting.
How to topple an empire. Screw their economy.
That’s something you almost *never* see on a series
Rick and Morty is really, really good.
Leche de caballo
Usually it’s
“BUILD A RESISTANCE! TAKE IT BY FORCE! Etc”
But in actuality, the best/most successful revolutions happen from inside the government.
Usually involving other more strategical assets like politicians, soldiers, generals, bankers,
Anything that involves the economy and military, the whole wazoo.
Cough cough Mr Robot
TrainerDarkrai
Alright wise guy, name at least 3 other shows that have people topple an empire by screwing their economy?
@@couragew6260 That's interesting, as a sci-fi/fantasy writer I feel like that could make for some really interesting stories.
The animators are so amazing. The alien president explodes into chitin splinters around blue goop with brains suspended in it which then collapses. Crazy good.
Most people won't get this but the moment he materialized the butt was the moment Rick understood he could cast his genjutsu on the entirety of shoney's and the whole reality.
For the love of god, watch something other than Naruto.
It's genbuttsu, but yes. You have learned much.
Rick's 70 years old but he's athletic asf😂😂😂
*cyborg..
@@mho... Also driven. Even without all the implants, Rick is a beast.
Pickle Rick. (mic drop)
The beauty of this joke is that by changing a 1 to a 0, Rick did not destroy a civilization but collapsed a government. Those are two different things. Currency devaluation almost always leads to a change of order, but the people and their culture don’t just disappear because of it.
Nah, they released shorts showing that the Galactic Federation’s civilization basically collapsed with this. They even have a video showing how these bug things can cook their young to survive the ongoing collapse.
I like that Rick dealt with both his Government Level enemies in one move, I suppose the enemy of my enemy are actually the people you lock in a room together and let them do all the work
“Calm down people”.
But who’s going to pay me to do that?
0:25 foreshadowing evil Morty.
Bro they’re literally almost the same people ofc they’d have the same ideas or something like that
I honestly like the detail of the galactic president, he actually knew how to deal with the problem, if you look closely however, once everyone else in the office start arguing over their payment and such, his eyes widened, as in he realized there is nothing he can do so he just does his thing so to not see his government collapse
I love how the Galactic President is Calculon from Futurama.
I never noticed
He's also Crocubot, Abradolf Lincler, The Brain from Pinky and the Brain, Inspector Gadget, Doctor Doom, etc.
“Gentlemen there’s a solution you’re not seeing”
That’s my go to now
0:25 foreshadowing season 5 finale, said by a morty
I love how this has like the most simple answer of all time, but he still chose to do that.
"Wait, who's paying me to yell at him?"
Cracks me up every time.
Back when I watched this without knowing anything about economics, I actually thought that $1 is literally the entire budget of the galactic governmenr
This is more relevant than ever.
This is why you shouldn't have a unified centralised currency.
this is why you should use the gold standard as backup for your curency
@@doppelhelixes gold standard is also a fictional value in itself. Nixon proved it by removing the gold standard for US dollar which lead to US currency being based in other type of value which where based on US dollar.
@@andmos1001 And how exactly that has worked out so far? You saw the crash of 09 and how bad that was this is why more invested towards precious metals mainly silver
@@djmars1983 The gold standard would not work.
@@djmars1983 Plenty of economic crashes (including the big one) took place back when there was a gold standard.
“Employee of the Month Ladies and Gentlemen” 😂😂🤣🤣☠️☠️💀💀
The bug president : there is a solution here
The bug president: * has left the chat *
Boooo this is less funny
0:28
Adios, Buggy President (Maurice LaMarche).
I love how their first thought was to use items of clothing as currency lol
0:40-1:10
My brain cells arguing about how to solve a problem.
The Doctor: I can take down a government with 6 words
Rick: cool flex but I can do it with a digit.
Local Bug Politician accidentally kills self while trying to summon Persona
Reminder that the President here is voiced by Maurice LaMarche, who voiced the King in Frozen I.
To be fair this wouldn't happen with a fiat currency. Any glitch in the system like this would simply be ignored as a temporary issue until the computers could be rebooted. Also in a fiat currency the strength of the state is the true backer of the government's currency and the Federation is still the largest military in this version of the universe.
A nice idea but if you spend more than a couple minutes thinking about Rick's plan it becomes completely silly.
This is why virtual currency is useless on it's own you always need something physical to represent your value.
What did we learn, kids?
Never👏use👏a single👏centralized 👏 currency 👏 for an 👏 intergalactic 👏 empire.
"He who controls the pance controls the galaxy!!!"
That's all it took? Man, the Galactic Government DESERVED to collapse
Um. Dollar's a free-floating currency too...
@@JoshSweetvale That's why the U.S. military doesn't have a pay attached to their contract... it has a "pay grade" of which you'll entered into the armed services as but no actual guarantee of pay. So thus in a catastrophic emergency and economic collapse military members would still serve even if they aren't immediately getting paid.
@@JoshSweetvale The dollar also doesn't have a button that makes it worth nothing.
@@TheFlyingZulu If _they think_ they won't get a payment, you can be sure they *absolutely won't* risk their lives, or even move a finger for anybody or any "cause".
@@Braxton1981 Nah, they would. Not all, but a lot still would. America has this weird soldier mentality where many, despite complaining often and loudly, would fight for what they perceive is right by the ideals of its country. That includes fucking over its own government if it's perceived to be anti-democratic.
Sin: I can end the whole universe with Giga Graviton.
Rick: Hold my 0.
OMG U ARE SO HILARIOUS AND ORIGINAL the hold my beer but its 0 instead... OMG
How to collapse an interstellar empire.
Star Wars: eliminate their leadership and blow up their ultimate weapon. The rest will turn on each other and split into factions.
XCOM: eliminate their leadership and the rest will surrender, opening up opportunities for diplomacy and reparations.
Rick and Morty: speed-run capitalism.
Considering what the Galactic Government did to Earth, this was INCREDIBLY cathartic.
There's nothing such a switch to configure the value of a currency unless the economy of the galaxy is corrupted because its truly depends on the imports and exports from/to other galaxies so, there's a chance that the president killed himself because of the public rage or maybe he can transfer his brain to another bug like Rick did in of the episodes.
Is this how the Galactic Empire actually falls in Asimov's The Foundation? 😂
Pretty easy solution actually.
Just use some other currency until the old one gets fixed.
Maybe I just don't get economics, but it seems odd they don't have a backup
0:28 Aaaaawwnn!!! 😂😂😂😂😂
0:32 WOW, HOLY SHIT. That's brilliant
“How to fix my galactic economy”
Google: “Backspace, 1, enter.”
Bing:
1:08 How I felt in 2020/how I feel about the reality we live in.
I'd pay 8,000 USD for someone to un-alive me.
I hate the reality we live in. We live in a world where rent and other utilities are expensive, the wrong people are in jail when the real criminals are out there. There's injustice, people take advantage of other people, certain people try to rob other people. Who knows how many wars are going on right now? There are cities where lots of drug addicts and homeless are that can't be helped/taken care of.
I dont know anything about how stuff like this works but if Rick could change the value of the currency like that cant people working for the government just change it back again?
Or is that something only a super genius like Rick is supposed to be able to do?
Since that's there only currency value similar to stock marketing, he prob got rid of it. So that meant they cant buy it back because they're broke in general.
1:01 But you're right. Actually they could. ...For money. But now 1 unit of the currency is worth 0. Changing its worth back to the worth of 1 unit gives 0. But really you'd like to watch Mr. Robot series.
Essentially, the idea is that since the closest access to it is a warzone, and any other access would require effort, their ingrained mindset of value extraction means they refuse to work without being paid, meaning that if their wages are currently nothing, none of them are willing to put in the work to fix the problem. Its an indictment of the current atmosphere of the government putting all its emphasis on transactions rather than other forms of value, and of wage slavery in general creating a fundamentally fragile society. No, I do not have a high IQ, thank you for asking, its average
@@curvingfyre6810 ohh that makes senses.
And who's going to pay them to do that?
00:34 from galactic capitalist empire becoming galactic communism comrade
If they were smart the president would've just said "make an announcement saying it's a computer error and see if we can't discover the cause of the problem while martial law is declared"
“I can answer that….for money” had me rolling 😂
the EU and the ECB also the FED, summed up into one episode:
The Soviet Union circa 1991 colourized
But isn't an example of capitalism at it's core?
Ergo: isn't this a deconstruction of what happens when AAAapitalism collapses in on itself?
@@brano13177 when has capitalism collapsed on itself?
@@cugeltheclever3766 When economies crash among other systems collapses happen: like the south sea bubble, the great depression and the recession
Also note the microcosm of the AAA game industry
@@brano13177 just because a country has an economic crash that doesn't mean capitalism has collapses on itself, periodic economic depresions are normal and have been ocurring since the dawn of civilazation.
@@cugeltheclever3766 an economic crash is by definition a collapse... not to mention capitalism is a system based off of mercantilism, plutocratic exploitation, of people's, resources, communities, societies, ect.
And falsehood on the claims that "it's normal since the dawn of civilization" because that asserts, falsely, that capitalism as an economic doctrine had always existed in human history; when in reality it hasn't and never had until much recently in human history. What humanity used before was the barter system and several other systems and forms of mercantilism before capitalism came to be.
Lastly; for profit prisons are just Capitalist gulags.
When a decentralized, digital currency rises in popularity.
Thanks for posting
When i was in boot camp our drill instructor told us "your paycheck is guaranteed because the govt doesnt want a mutiny. Of all the people, agencies and depts in the US, the military has the best chance to succeed in overthrowing the govt, so they always pay their military on time".
Funny how Game Stop got almost the same reaction.
Which totally doesn't make sense, he didn't change how much money is in the system, or how fast it is moving. Fiat currency is based on trust and Rick didn't change how much trust the citizens had in it, he didn't change how much individual stores and merchants charge for goods and services. It's kinda funny but makes no sense at all.
can we just say morty's suggestion was way better than summer's
He is a bit more experienced with this kind of thing.
Stargate Atlantis did that during its final season. It was called the Attero Device. A galaxy-wide FTL jammer. Could be tuned to different types of FTL, and destroyed any ship that turned on their drive.
Unfortunately it overcharged the eponymous Stargates, which started exploding too. Too bad so sad.
The bug president also has another solution he's not seeing, just changing the value of the freaking currency.
He doesn’t have the power
@filled9971 makes me wonder why the capability to control something that important and potentially damaging was in a Federation Prison and not the Government building or whatever Capital they had
I can totally picture Rick casually obliterating an entire universe just for kicks-maybe as part of some bizarre experiment or just because he’s bored-and then hopping over to the next alternate universe like nothing happened.
Anyone else think it isn't a coincidence that the Blemflark symbol looks almost the same as that of the US dollar? This is probably our future.
Well, I guess that's one way to topple an empire.
Luckily, our empire uses a real currency and therefore is immune to any sort of collapse
@@Bogdanko93 It's still just pieces of paper though; they only have value because we say they do.
@@benjaminklaassen4722 that was sarcasm
@@Bogdanko93 Yeah, my radar for that when it comes to text is basically nonexistent.
At 0:03 , why is there a morty hiding behind the shelf on the right lmaoo
I'd be amazed if there wasn't a Morty hiding behind that shelf.
Its a machine
0:15 Best roast of the season
“Their payment is the honor they’ll feel to serve their-wait whose paying me to yell at this guy”
Wish I could have a job where I could be paid to literally do nothing except yell at people
This is how the REALLY REALLY SMART people think financial systems work.
saddly the really really smart people control the financial system.
the stockmarket became a dumpsterfire because of that...
the easy way out 🤯🔫
Ryan Jackson
Apple is too scared of public response to make an actual gun emoji.
*Rick* straight up *Joker'ed* them :)
"When the chips are down,these ...these civilised people will eat each other"
~ *Joker*
Shows that aliens are like humans
Without that $, aliens fall