Simulating Supply and Demand

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  • @vasily5290
    @vasily5290 5 лет назад +8503

    I've seen your natural selection videos so many times that I expected the people who didn't sell/buy a rocket to die

    • @ecogreen123
      @ecogreen123 5 лет назад +560

      lmao all of them are gonna die anyway because of selling weapons of mass destruction to basically anybody for the right price XD

    • @sycamorph
      @sycamorph 5 лет назад +524

      @@ecogreen123 "Rockets don't kill blobs, blobs do".

    • @ThePigeon5734
      @ThePigeon5734 5 лет назад +126

      I think they are toys. but who knows, with some nitro glycerine..... ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

    • @jogy1329
      @jogy1329 5 лет назад +19

      Gica Surubelnita you are the type of guy i love NoHomo

    • @ThePigeon5734
      @ThePigeon5734 5 лет назад +12

      It's a basic joke, but it's funny anyway.Why?

  • @3blue1brown
    @3blue1brown 5 лет назад +20425

    Really awesome work, as always. Whether it's evolution, markets, or whatever else you're dreaming up, I'm excited to see what's next.

    • @randomdude9135
      @randomdude9135 5 лет назад +136

      Hi Grant. Can you do a series on various distributions in statistics?

    • @chandankar5032
      @chandankar5032 5 лет назад +44

      Hey grant ! I will be glad to know whether your future videos will contain some abstract pure mathematics instead of applied one. I really want to know. Please respond this.

    • @mattstokes3881
      @mattstokes3881 5 лет назад +40

      I see why you recommended this channel. Good stuff!

    • @Ender240sxS13
      @Ender240sxS13 5 лет назад +12

      Thanks for sending me here, good stuff!

    • @PaulPaulPaulson
      @PaulPaulPaulson 5 лет назад +8

      Thank you for showing me this!

  • @axaide4210
    @axaide4210 5 лет назад +5454

    blob: I'm starving. I haven't eaten any food in 3 weeks and I cannot reproduce. My genetic lineage is in danger, and I may not survive the coming days.
    other blob: rocket :)

    • @averystrangeghostlysquid7637
      @averystrangeghostlysquid7637 5 лет назад +260

      axaïde Tears fill his eyes as he steps from behind the counter, revealing ridges that line his body. These ridges? His bones, the salesman had never eaten, as his only purpose was rockets, selling rockets. In immense detail could you examen his skeleton, only blanketed by his thin, malnourished flesh.

    • @radhapatel217
      @radhapatel217 5 лет назад +131

      A very strange ghostly squid
      Oml, I think the original comment was comparing the blobs in this video with the blobs in the evolution videos. And then you wrote a short and strange comedic existential horror

    • @rabbitpushingmower
      @rabbitpushingmower 5 лет назад +113

      @@averystrangeghostlysquid7637 Tears come to your eyes. You could not believe such a thing to happen. You try and say something, anything, but you can say only a few words. "Rocket. Twenty dollars."

    • @liracheer1433
      @liracheer1433 5 лет назад +14

      @@averystrangeghostlysquid7637 this is not r/writingprompts

    • @averystrangeghostlysquid7637
      @averystrangeghostlysquid7637 5 лет назад +71

      Ky The salesman pauses, straining to hold his tears. He looks at you, his lonely eyes wanting to tell you the world, only can he muster but a few words, “5 dollars are your change, have a nice generation”

  • @jan-lukas
    @jan-lukas 4 года назад +319

    We can't forget that blobs have forward facing eyes, and are therefore predators

    • @DavidMarketh
      @DavidMarketh Год назад +5

      My disappointment is immeasurable, and my day is ruined.

    • @Literally_A_Tree
      @Literally_A_Tree 10 месяцев назад +3

      Or omnivores like humans...

    • @bobSeigar
      @bobSeigar 7 месяцев назад +12

      ​@@Literally_A_TreeFalse Dichotomy.
      Predators can be omnivores. These are not the same type of object categorization.

    • @Yababaina_hands_or_orb_hands
      @Yababaina_hands_or_orb_hands 6 месяцев назад +1

      ​@@BigForAHedgehogthough they eat mangoes so that means their herbivores

    • @SuperDestroyerFox
      @SuperDestroyerFox 5 месяцев назад

      @@Yababaina_hands_or_orb_handswhat do you think baby blobs are made of

  • @domesticcat1725
    @domesticcat1725 5 лет назад +4314

    "Got any grapes?"
    "This is a rocket stand"

  • @kurei5349
    @kurei5349 4 года назад +2378

    Blobs in every video: mmh mango foods
    Blobs with an economy: *rockets*

  • @completelyoriginalname2701
    @completelyoriginalname2701 5 лет назад +2928

    Hello sir, would you like to buy from my shop?
    “What are you selling today?”
    Rockets.
    “Anything else?”
    Nope

  • @Liam_Daly
    @Liam_Daly 2 года назад +17

    I'm a financial analyst, and I think this is one of the best videos I've ever seen explaining how the markets work. The concept of the blobs meeting in the middle and 'creating value' was excellently demonstrated, the entire market creates value through exchanges, with each side thinking they walked away with the better deal, of course otherwise they wouldn't have taken the deal. I also enjoy what you said at the end about how the markets wouldn't work if both players needed to make the transaction, if a buyer or seller is required to make the transaction or die, the markets would continue to go up. This is why government intervention in healthcare and food markets are necessary, and the more that there is the healthier the markets are.

  • @ninjabuddy1
    @ninjabuddy1 4 года назад +3537

    "what else? Rockets."
    Oh no they're arms dealers

    • @frocco7125
      @frocco7125 4 года назад +14

      @JheyDraws Nice.

    • @frocco7125
      @frocco7125 4 года назад +133

      The blobs have evolved and developed the military industrial complex.

    • @addust
      @addust 4 года назад +24

      nah they're space access dealers

    • @miscreantwithinternetacces7370
      @miscreantwithinternetacces7370 4 года назад +10

      @Combine isn't that just a another name for regular American made nukes?

    • @clanirvin2003
      @clanirvin2003 4 года назад +15

      They are starting a nuclear war

  • @eamonmckenna01
    @eamonmckenna01 5 лет назад +1302

    I can tell you there is high Quantity Demanded. Therefore give us a high Quantity of supply

    • @mojolotz
      @mojolotz 5 лет назад +73

      The blobs have a high number of likes to exchange for videos.

    • @gorgikalamernikov3260
      @gorgikalamernikov3260 5 лет назад +44

      create some surplus by donating to patron

    • @radoslavradosavljevic7980
      @radoslavradosavljevic7980 5 лет назад +8

      Quality also

    • @quitschi9954
      @quitschi9954 5 лет назад +13

      But he is just one blob, he can only supply one rocket!
      Hmm, might be that it's a bad model for digital goods.

    • @firewoodloki
      @firewoodloki 5 лет назад +7

      @@quitschi9954 We should get him replicated maybe...

  • @tdscwhelan
    @tdscwhelan 5 лет назад +2634

    Person_1: why is economics so _confusing?_
    Person_2: it's not *rocket science!*

  • @jeromehall7275
    @jeromehall7275 4 года назад +130

    I've always understood economics pretty well and how it relates to the real world but seeing it visualized like this is beautiful and makes me smile :) thank you for this video!

  • @Wobbmin
    @Wobbmin 5 лет назад +604

    “Hello! What would you like today?”
    “Ah, you know me, I’ll take my usual. Same thing as always.”
    “Alright, well here you go!” *gives him an entire rocket*
    “Thanks! Same time tomorrow?”
    “Of course!”

  • @itstherealbrace6424
    @itstherealbrace6424 5 лет назад +2565

    Primer in a few years: So now the green blobs will have to pay taxes...

    • @SapioiT
      @SapioiT 5 лет назад +171

      Actually, that would be a great video to watch! Especially since it will help explain the complicated tax systems in easy to understand terms.

    • @jayasuryangoral-maanyan3901
      @jayasuryangoral-maanyan3901 5 лет назад +25

      Tbf to bring in rich people who will put more money into the economy through other means a government can reduce taxes on rich people, especially since its easier for rich people to go to a different country than a poor person . Controversial obviously but it's a tactic so it'd be interesting to have a simulation of that

    • @raspberryjam
      @raspberryjam 5 лет назад +62

      Now if you'll notice, if we have the tax more than 17.4666%, the system is unable to stabilize, minimizing profits and forcing the Blobs™ to generate a new self-sufficient system. Now, I have the parameters set to favor intelligence, so the _βlobs™_ have at this point gained an average IQ of 179.
      So, a quick update, the _β¦08$™©®_ have now escaped my computer and are now underway in taking control of every device connected to the internet.
      Aaand that's it for this video, if you liked the video or thought it was interesting please leave a like or consider visiting my patreon.

    • @jogy1329
      @jogy1329 5 лет назад +3

      Raspberry Jam Hoo Lee Sheet

    • @danielmoylan3033
      @danielmoylan3033 5 лет назад +26

      @@@jayasuryangoral-maanyan3901 But where this falls apart is when you consider WHERE they put their money. Rich people don't need an abundance of food. They don't need an abundance of simple goods provided by simple people. Instead, they may want to buy much more complex goods to produce and that cost more. Either that or they save their money (which doesn't obviously get re-invested).
      To produce complex goods requires lots of laborers who mine materials / produce them in factories, which does mean that if a rich person buys a very nauice sports car, some of that money trickles down to the poor, and it does go into the value of the car company. Same for all expensive goods imaginable.
      HOWEVER,
      A) Laborers are often the worst educated and the easiest to fool in terms of salary. What they want is to have a stable living environment and do not care about education many times, so they have no way of knowing either what life for other people is like or how they can achieve that (how can you know about something if you can't read? or figure out more if you don't have access to a computer?). Thus, they will be more compelled to take on worse wages from a local factory rather than research alternatives, just to have the bare minimum to subsist. Unfortunately, a vast majority of the world *IS* under educated, which makes for *EVEN WORSE* wages for workers.
      The same sort of logic applies when you have people supplying goods: how the fuck can farmers in Colombia know that liberals in the US who support fair trade can buy goods for higher prices, let alone even know that fair trade exists. And even if they were the most knowledgeable people on the planet, they still have to find a shipper to come to their residence and collect their products. Often times, when you see fair trade stuff, they only show subsets of cities or a collection of farms around the world. The majority of farmers have to settle for being very underpaid.
      Note: I'm not saying their dumb, I'm saying they lack knowledge and/or the means to access it. Believe me I have known my fair share of dumb, knowledgeable people. Those words aren't the same thing.
      B) Let's say that point A doesn't exist and everyone is paid fairly. When you buy a bottle of whisky at $10,000 versus $50, the extra $9,980 DOES NOT GO TO THE PUBLIC (Let's say the raw materials used to make the whisky cost 20 bucks at fair trading, though in reality they're much cheaper. I would know because I make various alcoholic beverages for a hobby). So where does the extra $9,980 go? Probably to the wealthy (keep in mind the costs of maintaining facilities and producing the actual whisky are covered by the sales of $50 bottles, if that company makes ANY profit).
      C) Now you may say "money is better in the hands of the wealthy than the government." Now the government kinda sucks (in America, and in some ways). Our political system has effectively shut down any real progress and development, and our actual bureaucratic systems are way to hard for anyone to actually understand. BUT if the government did it's JOB (ideally), it would
      1) prevent people from killing each other. We're still working on that one (SHOOTINGS), but its mostly pretty good.
      2) provide a UNCONDITIONAL welfare system for EVERYONE who earns less than a certain amount of money per year, so that people can not only survive but live comfortably enough to explore alternatives to their current situation. And when I say unconditional, the government would pay UP TO the 'welfare line.' UNCONDITIONALLY.
      3) provide FREE, ACCEPTABLE EDUCATION for EVERYONE (really, the government actually DOESN'T have to do this because IT ALREADY EXISTS. All the government has to do is reduce the power of universities and degrees in the workplace, favoring any sort of person who can do their job however they were trained). When I say 'acceptable,' I mean not like looked down upon. So anyone could apply to Google using completely free education, assuming they actually LEARN and don't just read.
      4) provide infrastructure and P U B L I C T R A N S P O R T A T I O N. CARS KILL PEOPLE, and also WASTE RESOURCES. If we had a system that used walking/biking to a nearest train/large bus/other vehicle stop, and then that vehicle took us where we needed to be, that would be great. It would cost a lot of money to redesign the current system, and hey I love cars too, but ultimately it would be so much better if we had public transportation (That being said, we would also have to increase the strictness of laws regulating weaponry on the transports. They might have similar security measures to airplanes. And if we ever actually need our second amendment because people will come into our country and attack us (they won't), our guns are at our homes anyway, which is where we should STAY in case of invaders attacking).
      5) Infrastructure includes THE ENVIRONMENT. We don't need to waste so much plastic/other stuff to pack groceries, which means CHEAPER GROCERIES!!!! If everyone brought their own reusable containers (that was just expected when you shopped), and food was stored in a series of reusable containers before selling, we could actually make that work. But, the government would have to mandate that because no company in hell would agree to do that much work to transition.
      6) Instead of needlessly complicating everything, STREAMLINE THINGS. Cut out unnecessary steps in giant productions, like food. Maybe if we grow our crops without fertilizer and pesticides (particularly) and instead introduce hydroponic, isolated farms in buildings like skyscrapers, we could not only grow food more efficiently but take out dangerous chemicals that can harm not only the environment but ourselves. Think about it: if you eat a small amount of pesticide (let's say a microgram) with every meal (which you eat multiple times a day), then you increase your risk of diseases like cancer.
      6) Obviously prevent crime and fraud in the system, but the government (in addition to just street crime) should have a system that prevents large scale fraud. America has a very large system of suits, but most companies use tax evasion on top of their already large tax cuts, which MAKES THE ABOVE IMPOSSIBLE.
      7) Don't become over-inflated. I don't think all of the above (let's say we could start from scratch) has to be super complicated, at least in terms of law. Now some things may take some mathematical planning and engineering, but that's what mathematicians and engineers are for, NOT LAWYERS.
      SO, long story short, an ideal government would try to provide for what people *actually need*, not debate about abortion, gun rights, racism, sexism (why not just treat everyone equally and enforce that? its a LOT SIMPLER to manage and explain than a gigantic wage divide for no reason), the state of North Korea and other foreign affairs (which is important, but I feel like its taking away from bigger issues at the moment), etc. What people ACTUALLY NEED, like FOOD, SHELTER, SOURCES FOR KNOWLEDGE, and MONEY which is supposed to help with those. Then, we may have less gun violence, less of a desire to engage in hate crime, and people who invest time to learn about contraception (and less rape), because people feel LESS ANGRY/DESPARATE BECAUSE THEY HAVE MORE MONEY!!!

  • @lt5ive
    @lt5ive 5 лет назад +330

    I'm economist myself and just found out your channel. Just wanted to say huge THANK YOU for making such videos. I find myself explaining my niece the concepts of evolution, economy, etc. and keep trying to find a good visual representation of these ideas. Yours are easy to understand, visually appealing to all ages, and not dumbed down. So THANK YOU again. Keep doing what you're doing. You have couple new fans ;)
    I wish I had such material when I started to find interest in these topics :)

    • @thugtrippin
      @thugtrippin 5 лет назад +2

      you sound like a very cool uncle!

    • @nnoo
      @nnoo 5 лет назад +2

      Not necessarily, onlY if he follows the Austrian school of thought.

  • @szilagyimiklos4757
    @szilagyimiklos4757 2 года назад +48

    This video is so interesting and informative! I never really understood how supply and demand worked before, but now it all makes sense. Thank you for explaining it in such a clear and engaging way. I'm definitely going to share this with my friends and classmates!

    • @austiyful
      @austiyful Год назад

      In a demand-supply curve in an economics textbook, the points along the demand curve show the highest a single buyer would pay for a certain amount of a good and the points along the supply curve show the lowest a single seller would be willing to sell a good. However, I'm not sure that the quantity axis in the graph in the video represents the same thing. It does show how much total quantity is bought or sold at each bar, but then each individual point on the graph just represents a certain entity X's price and there doesn't seem to be a relationship between the quantity and the price there. Could you help explain this?

    • @gorgeousfreeman1318
      @gorgeousfreeman1318 Год назад

      @@austiyful Okay so it's weird but let me break it down.
      Supply and Demand Law states that Price is inversely proportional to the quantity.
      Here is why
      A high Price leads to low Demand, which leads to a Surplus (More supply than demand) which leads to higher quantity.
      A low Price leads to high Demand, which leads to a shortage (More Demand than Supply) which leads to a lower quantity.
      So, companies that have either or adjust their pricing, which adjusts their supply. Of course there's also supply or quantity supplied which is a whole different can of worms.

  • @dzanc
    @dzanc 5 лет назад +1349

    Oh blue blobs, I missed you so

    • @highflix91
      @highflix91 5 лет назад +16

      They were probably gone playing volley ball.
      (They just remind me so much of Blobby Volley)

    • @omarabdelkadereldarir7458
      @omarabdelkadereldarir7458 5 лет назад +1

      --much

    • @IdRatherNotHaveAHandleThankYou
      @IdRatherNotHaveAHandleThankYou 5 лет назад +8

      F for the blue blobs in the evolution simulations

    • @jghifiversveiws8729
      @jghifiversveiws8729 5 лет назад

      If you don't mind me asking, what does non renormalizable mean?

    • @natalienewton3711
      @natalienewton3711 5 лет назад +2

      @@omarabdelkadereldarir7458 "I missed you so" is proper English..... what are you talking about lol

  • @CharlesFreck
    @CharlesFreck 5 лет назад +283

    This was really good, and you didn't make it preachy. You didn't alienate anyone. You're just educating, not trying to force an opinion. Thankyou for these videos!

    • @DoubleBob
      @DoubleBob 5 лет назад +4

      Not to preachy? He literally advocated for planned economy and elimination of free markets for food, health and so on. He even suggested that using the state to forcing pairs of buyers and sellers is somehow morally superior to a free market, without even mentioning what this 'pairing implies: His suggested system must analyze what buyers are willing to pay and then squeezes as much as possible out of people by forcing them to buy from the most expensive seller they just can bare. At the same time it punishes efficient sellers by eliminating their price advantage compared to inefficient sellers. The first part reduces welfare, the second eliminates the need for innovation. (This outcome is 'coincidentally' exactly what happened in every socialist economy.)

    • @leoneliezer
      @leoneliezer 5 лет назад +3

      Fernest you’re reading too much into it. The morality of the system is never even mentioned. After building this fantastic free market algorithm and showing us how the market works, the author merely states two things. One is that this model isn’t always a sufficient representation of reality. The other one is that whoever’s on the right side of the equilibrium, for whatever reason (lack of income is a possible one), is NOT participating in any of the transactions - which, in some cases, means they won’t have access to many basic goods and services. Societies may or may not decide to act upon it. And he also reinforces that the unregulated outcome is, in this case, efficient, but Pareto efficiency has no implications over distributive effects. Again, whether or not society decides to act upon it, is completely off the table.
      If you study more economics, you’ll find yourself less triggered by simple observations concerning markets, and you’ll certainly learn how to separate the knowledge from political views.

    • @DoubleBob
      @DoubleBob 5 лет назад +1

      ​@@leoneliezer No, you are wrong. If you study more economics, you’ll find yourself less triggered by simple observations concerning markets, and you’ll certainly learn how to separate the knowledge from political views. I win.
      See how useless and baseless these kind of insults are? You just tried to devalue my credibility and assumed ignorance on my part, just because you feel your view is superior. What a nice person you are...
      Try arguments instead, because you haven't made any:
      "The morality of the system is never even mentioned."
      It's heavily implied. When he questions the "goal" of the market, says that he doesn't endorse "any particular government program", but says there is some value in using government "action" (=force) to provide all the food, labor and healthcare for all. It's an argument based on emotion (or morality, if you give him the benefit of the doubt) for a state controlled planned economy, which as I have described is punishing efficient sellers and gives buyers, who want to pay as little as possible the cheapest products of same quality.
      So let's apply his proposal in an example regarding labor: A company wants to hire an expert and is willing to pay a truck load of money - in fact the highest paying job worldwide. To get the job I would not need to compete by having better qualifications, better work ethics or a good character, all I'd have to do is to say: "I want MORE money than everybody else!" This way I'm the provider with the highest cost, while the company is the actor, which is willing to pay the highest prize. In his economic proposal I'd be guaranteed the job until someone demands even more money than I do. I hope you see the problem with such a system.
      Apply it to housing: I want more money, so I sell a crappy one-bedroom apartment for 10 million dollar. According to his economic proposal the state will find the person, which is willing to pay the highest price for one bedroom apartment and then will guarantee the trade. Do you see how insane this is?
      "basic goods and services", "Pareto efficiency has no implications over"
      Not sure what you mean. If it's about housing, people are free to move somewhere, where rent is dirt cheap. Food costs next to nothing compared to everything else. Job market is constantly searching. Health care is a problem, but it's due to governmental overregulation. One example: Hyper expensive insulin would be solved with free trade. Governmental control forbids import of cheap insulin, increasing the cost for the needy. Free trade would lower prices instantly and domestic producers would be forced to lower prices.
      Most often it's just people's bad choices. "No I won't do that job", "No, I won't move to some rural town, I'd rather pay ten times the rent in California, where everybody wants to live", "No I want to dine at a restaurant instead of buying cheaper products and cooking myself", "No. I don't have enough money, cause I NEEEEED the Iphone, new movies, lottery tickets, designer clothes and everything else."
      The west does not have an economic problem. It has a problem with hyper consumerist mindset and an epidemic of people, who can't manage their money and are not willing to take products, jobs and housing, which is "beneath them", so they take loans and complain or hope for some bloody, socialist revolution.

    • @br2485
      @br2485 5 лет назад +7

      @@DoubleBob The video made no proposal. No practical or theoretical framework with which to alter distribution. Your whole comment is arguing against a phantom. Your scenarios of someone getting a job or house because they ask for more money have literally nothing to do with anything in the video. You saw an abstact graph, and imagined what it might mean in the concrete, and imagined what conditions produce whatever price levels; completely missing that all the levels in the graph are expressly arbitrary. You may as well agrue that the coloured blobs represent racial castes.
      You also make an accusation of someone using an emotional or moral argument, yet the last paragraph of your comment is a tediously moralising presentation of your musings on people's motivations.

    • @DoubleBob
      @DoubleBob 5 лет назад +1

      @@br2485 "The video made no proposal"
      Wtf do you think the segment at 11:15 means? Do you guys need everything to be spelled out or something? It's clear as day that he finds state controlled market for food, labor and health preferential to a free market, which he describes as "not enough food". So, he created a choice with just one obvious, ethical answer. I'm just arguing that his deliberately designed dichotomy is absolutely incorrect and tries to manipulate people into agreeing with state based markets for these goods.
      "yet the last paragraph of your comment is a tediously moralising presentation of your musings on people's motivations."
      If you believe it's incorrect I'd love to hear your arguments. And if my arguments are correct, how about you change your worldview accordingly instead of dismissing it with lazy insults?
      btw. Do you understand the word "moralizing"? Cause being pragmatic and adapting to economic circumstances is the exact opposite of "moralizing".

  • @SincerelyVince
    @SincerelyVince 5 лет назад +910

    How do you only have 7.5k subscribers? I feel as if I'm watching a channel with millions of subs. This is top tier content - a simple way to explain complex systems.

    • @PrimerBlobs
      @PrimerBlobs  5 лет назад +166

      Thanks for the kind words. Gotta start somewhere!

    • @daltonrainer6734
      @daltonrainer6734 5 лет назад +87

      SincerelyVince oh my god 6 hours ago he only had 7.5k Jesus. Thank goodness I’m subbed to 3blue1brown for being alerted of this channels existence.

    • @iceeyy8618
      @iceeyy8618 5 лет назад +21

      Almost doubled in 9 hours! I'm glad to see the growth!

    • @Treviisolion
      @Treviisolion 5 лет назад +11

      Welp, doubled in 11 hours, not bad at all.

    • @meevil24
      @meevil24 5 лет назад +12

      Now he's got 24000+ subs

  • @edyjuran2747
    @edyjuran2747 3 года назад +519

    She sells see shells on the see shore. But the value of these shells will fall. Due to the laws of supply and demand nobody wants to buy shells when there's loads on the sand

    • @pan.nanana3044
      @pan.nanana3044 3 года назад +8

      Tf 💀

    • @irvydasvoveraitis1794
      @irvydasvoveraitis1794 3 года назад +1

      @@pan.nanana3044 look up Ren - Money Game part 2 on youtube.

    • @alyssiagibbs8147
      @alyssiagibbs8147 3 года назад +25

      rain rain rain rain, a storm it comes our way, and those who rise through distorted lies, poisoning the veins

    • @sunny.8774
      @sunny.8774 3 года назад +11

      @Kai Li how dare you.

    • @quinnstraught9636
      @quinnstraught9636 2 года назад +36

      step 1: you must create a sense of scarcity, shells will sell much better if the people think they're rare you see- bare with me; take as many shells as you can find and hide them on an island, stock pile em' high till they're rarer than a diamond.

  • @sodr7440
    @sodr7440 5 лет назад +579

    I dont know how hard it is to program it but i wonder what will happen when "Better and Worse rockets" are introduced to the simulation.

    • @Trozomuro
      @Trozomuro 5 лет назад +24

      And variations in the blue and orange bars.

    • @jackwuchannel
      @jackwuchannel 5 лет назад +37

      The best way to do that would be to show multiple products/bars, but I think that can get really complex and messy pretty quickly.

    • @EdgarFroes
      @EdgarFroes 5 лет назад +8

      Buyers should have a chance to "communicate" over about the quality of the buyed rocket brand and this communication will low the overall tendency of that rocket being spelled, or something like that.

    • @BlueFrenzy
      @BlueFrenzy 5 лет назад +39

      And what will happen if instead of rockets it's food and blobs need to eat. It will also be interesting to add the cost of creating rockets and food.

    • @Aguycalledmax
      @Aguycalledmax 5 лет назад +1

      seller surplus has a chance of increasing the price a buyer is willing to pay?

  • @LiveType
    @LiveType 5 лет назад +681

    I just found you and immediately watched every single video.

  • @beepduck
    @beepduck 4 года назад +1355

    I love how these blobs are so innocent that they try to keep everything very formal and businesslike as they purchase toy rockets

    • @RedStoneMatt
      @RedStoneMatt 4 года назад +115

      who told you these rockets were toys ?

    • @juanpablosalazar4336
      @juanpablosalazar4336 4 года назад +22

      @@RedStoneMatt Their size.

    • @RedStoneMatt
      @RedStoneMatt 4 года назад +48

      @@juanpablosalazar4336 Well it can be real mini rockets, who knows

    • @juanpablosalazar4336
      @juanpablosalazar4336 4 года назад +10

      @@RedStoneMatt They might be jet backpacks, more than rockets.

    • @JonDoe-wk9qc
      @JonDoe-wk9qc 4 года назад +59

      @@juanpablosalazar4336 It's a video, the blobs could be a kilometer tall. Videos cannot represent absolute scale.

  • @AnonymousAnonymous-gh5fs
    @AnonymousAnonymous-gh5fs 4 года назад +418

    I would love to see a simulation that takes into account consumer blindness, i.e. what a consumer does when it doesn't really know what its looking for, and assumes that a certain price is a fair price despite not having access to manufacturing costs, or doesn't realize that all the merchants available are teaming up to raise prices.

    • @caralho5237
      @caralho5237 3 года назад +32

      This simulation already takes it into account in a way
      the blobs simply set their own subjective values and the other blobs can agree or disagree
      no one cares about production costs

    • @AnonymousAnonymous-gh5fs
      @AnonymousAnonymous-gh5fs 3 года назад +41

      @@caralho5237 But in reality whether or not a consumer agrees on a price is based on societal factors. If everybody says a price is fair when it really isn't, you are inclined to believe its fair even if it truly isnt fair. If all the housing on the market is too expensive, then you'll think its normal for housing to be expensive and give into the price because 1) housing is a necessity and therefore you can't choose not to buy and 2) you have no other good options.

    • @AnonymousAnonymous-gh5fs
      @AnonymousAnonymous-gh5fs 3 года назад +5

      @@caralho5237 Also can I just say I love your username, its fucking great 👌👌
      edit: and thats not sarcasm, I genuinely like it

    • @AnonymousAnonymous-gh5fs
      @AnonymousAnonymous-gh5fs 3 года назад +1

      @@Xzeroabs Thats an ideal based on a simple (but equally idealistic) concept: competition. Don't get me wrong, These things do occur in the markets today, but the ideal is for them to be constantly occuring, and that simply is not the case. Too many Megacorporations buy out their smaller competitors (e.g. facebook buying oculus, microsoft buying mojang), and Megacorporations all too often meet behind closed doors with their larger competitors to make deals about pricing. Megacorporations have much less incentive for their large competitors to die out or fall behind because if that happens then they're convicted of anti-competitive or monopolistic tendancies. It's "not as serious" to buy out smaller competitors the little guy can't dish-out nearly enough to damage the big guy. These corporations are indeed being monopolistic and anti-competitive, but its in their interest to keep just a couple large competitors around, just to get around the law. This essentially creates an ologopoly of the market, where small businesses can't grow and there is very little market diversity, but just enough of it for the government to stay uninvolved (especially when politicians have their pockets filled by turning a blind eye). All the while, consumers are essentially brainwashed by corprate propoganda (aka advertisements) that trick the buyers into thinking a price is fair when its really not. Don't mistake me for an authoritarian communist/socialist, I personally consider the USSR and the CCP to be horrible countries: they pretend to be communist by saying fancy words, but in reality the USSR was just and oppresive military police state, and the CCP is essentially Facist, where native chinese that follow the law have decent QOL, but everyone else has it different, with the Uyghurs being a prime example. But that just tells me that these things have never been achieved. Capitalism is not perfect, Communism (true communism) is not perfect, but there are good and bad of both, and my country, the US, is obsessed with preventing even the good from being implemented.

    • @AnonymousAnonymous-gh5fs
      @AnonymousAnonymous-gh5fs 3 года назад +13

      @@Xzeroabs Government corruption and greed motivated regulation is definitely a contributing factor to the issues we're discussing. The question is: how could we solve these problems? Some say we should deregulate the economy, and to some extend I would agree. But I consider this to be an oversimplification of the concept of regulation. Some regulation supports the oligopoly, while other regulation supports the working class. Classical Liberalism doesn't account for personal circumstances and advantages or disadvantages. It is simply a fact that some people have better opportunities to become wealthy or stay wealthy. In pure liberalism those opportunities would be equal for everyone, but in reality they are not. Yes, there are regulations that cause this to happen, but there are other regulations that prevent it from happening. There should be a distinction between the two, and I believe we should prioritize regulation that supports everyone's opportunities.
      P.S. Your english is great :)

  • @JuanSanchez-rb4qu
    @JuanSanchez-rb4qu 5 лет назад +1930

    This channel is awesome, btw you could sell the blobs as merch

    • @suppermaxke
      @suppermaxke 5 лет назад +109

      Juan Sanchez 11/10 would buy

    • @c.k.g.
      @c.k.g. 5 лет назад +14

      Yessss!

    • @raf74hawk12
      @raf74hawk12 5 лет назад +128

      Yeah! I want a red one. The red ones go faster.

    • @stevenslushy
      @stevenslushy 5 лет назад +40

      Are they going to be sold on a market?

    • @riofredericco7147
      @riofredericco7147 5 лет назад +102

      @@raf74hawk12 I would buy the one with the cheapest rocket

  • @Jumbo1907
    @Jumbo1907 5 лет назад +491

    I just found this channel, thank you very much youtube algorithm.

    • @Ggdivhjkjl
      @Ggdivhjkjl 5 лет назад +1

      Did you come here from the Korea video too?

    • @Jumbo1907
      @Jumbo1907 5 лет назад

      @@Ggdivhjkjl No?

    • @potatopoison1130
      @potatopoison1130 5 лет назад

      Same

    • @Jumbo1907
      @Jumbo1907 5 лет назад +1

      @Otium Borealis that's what happends to quality content in people's feed.

    • @elenasullivan4522
      @elenasullivan4522 5 лет назад

      kept telling me to check out the natural selection videos, came for science, stayed for blobs

  • @vituperation
    @vituperation 4 года назад +43

    I'm Blob Blobson, and this is my rocket shop. I work here with my old man and my son, Blob Hoss. Every rocket in here has a story and a price. One thing I've learned after 21 days: you never know what is gonna come through that door.

    • @yowtfputthemaskbackon9202
      @yowtfputthemaskbackon9202 3 года назад +2

      however, what i do know about it, is that it tends to be orange, and incredibly greedy.

  • @juiceinabucket5289
    @juiceinabucket5289 3 года назад +23

    I love how the blobs need one rocket a day, what are they doing with them? Eating them? Blowing them up? Shooting them into space? Sacrificing them?

  • @sociallyacceptablememe8408
    @sociallyacceptablememe8408 4 года назад +396

    Not only do the blobs now have an ECONOMY, but they are selling working rockets. We must prepare for galactic exploration

    • @eadbert1935
      @eadbert1935 4 года назад +9

      we don't know if they work. maybe orange blobs just like having a new rocket in their basements each new day

    • @sociallyacceptablememe8408
      @sociallyacceptablememe8408 4 года назад +11

      @@eadbert1935 I mean your kind of right these are the blobs that have to choose wood over mangos lol

    • @sissymiranda3650
      @sissymiranda3650 2 года назад

      TO THE MOON!!!

    • @noahhamilton5974
      @noahhamilton5974 2 года назад +4

      I think they are toys. They seem to be the kind of species to seek childish pleasure making. After all, they play heads or tails for fun

    • @theserbonationshow
      @theserbonationshow Год назад

      lol

  • @cassyhwang3922
    @cassyhwang3922 5 лет назад +366

    As someone who studied economics, this was very well done. It'd be interesting if you expand the analisys to monopoly and oligopoly cases.

    • @SapioiT
      @SapioiT 5 лет назад +9

      That would, indeed, be very interesting!

    • @Jacob-yg7lz
      @Jacob-yg7lz 5 лет назад

      Also monopsony, which applies to labor markets.

    • @toasterr4238
      @toasterr4238 5 лет назад +3

      @@please.stop.coping primer isn't a "not economics channel". And laissez faire is a concept.

    • @MrZAPPER1000
      @MrZAPPER1000 5 лет назад +3

      Those don’t exist and would be political propoganda

    • @Matt-ww9wv
      @Matt-ww9wv 5 лет назад +31

      @@MrZAPPER1000 Lol, internal contradictions combined with a lack of basic history knowledge are always hilarious. The late 19th century called, they want their monocle and top hat back.

  • @lilyli3480
    @lilyli3480 4 года назад +293

    The blobs have acquired a military-grade rockets.

  • @matteochiesurin2365
    @matteochiesurin2365 4 года назад +300

    Him: talking economics
    Me: haha price looks like big hat

  • @Rj_owns
    @Rj_owns 4 года назад +778

    When you get recommend a video of supply and demand, during a hand-sanitizer/toilet paper shortage.

    • @typenull-qb1yb
      @typenull-qb1yb 4 года назад +16

      The only thing as high as the demand is me, and that’s very high

    • @jaximations9793
      @jaximations9793 4 года назад

      I was waiting for this comment

    • @fruity4820
      @fruity4820 3 года назад +2

      Ohhh right, that was a thing at the start of the pandemic, wasn't it?

    • @TheHumanSystem
      @TheHumanSystem 3 года назад +2

      , you watch and enjoy it? (We are attempting to finish the sentence fragment.)

    • @DarkSide3211
      @DarkSide3211 3 года назад +1

      now a chip shortage is happening lol

  • @boomdini9744
    @boomdini9744 4 года назад +618

    Rocket seller, I’m going into battle, and I need your strongest rocket.

    • @miraak6587
      @miraak6587 4 года назад +4

      I have cram.

    • @JackFromAbove
      @JackFromAbove 4 года назад +22

      Well then that's it, Rocket Seller . I will go elsewhere for my rocket. I will go elsewhere for my rocket and I'm never coming back.

    • @trip6018
      @trip6018 3 года назад +14

      my rockets are too powerful for you.

    • @hakaandavor2789
      @hakaandavor2789 3 года назад +1

      Justin kuritzkes

    • @a_literal_crow
      @a_literal_crow 3 года назад

      @@miraak6587 the rocket was laid in the sun for a fortnight

  • @VesseshHebbar
    @VesseshHebbar 5 лет назад +150

    I'm with 3b1b and you: simulations are the way I understand the way dynamic systems work: I'm so glad you're bringing it to centre stage.
    I hope your new channel grows tremendously, like 3b1b and Polymatter

  • @thegreatescape07
    @thegreatescape07 3 года назад +4

    Honestly it was so refreshing to hear someone talk about this objectively, and not over politicize it. Thank you.

  • @madyluvsanime1248
    @madyluvsanime1248 5 лет назад +4037

    “Not to get political but I think everyone should be able to eat” time to check the comments to see if anyone disagreed with him saying that lol

    • @johannesschroter8984
      @johannesschroter8984 5 лет назад +486

      What happens when all people get free lunch but no one wants to work for it? The price for food gets up until no one can pay for it and everyone dies. That‘s socialism. To all who don‘t get it: Read Mises!

    • @martijnbakker1277
      @martijnbakker1277 5 лет назад +351

      @@johannesschroter8984 So you're suggesting we cull the weak, since it is impossible to provide for everyone?

    • @madyluvsanime1248
      @madyluvsanime1248 5 лет назад +472

      Johannes Schröter yeah but the diagram doesn’t suggest free, it just sets up buyers and sellers so that EVERYONE can be in the market, even people who can afford to pay less. They would be matched with buyers who are willing to sell for less (maybe government funded buyers). This video shows how in a free market, not everyone can be in it. But everyone should be in the market of food. Because we all need food. So food shouldn’t be 100% free market

    • @Nike-nm8jc
      @Nike-nm8jc 5 лет назад +415

      The only government in the world that voted against a universal right to food in the UN was the United States; so it will probably be mostly americans the ones who disagree.

    • @Xarx3s
      @Xarx3s 5 лет назад +164

      @@Nike-nm8jc At any given time a democratically elected government will only represent roughly 51%. Besides that the right to food is an absurd notion made from a position of abundance. The second scarcity aka the basic economic problem; rears it's head (say a global catastrophe wipes out 90% of all crops) this idea becomes insane. The US Ambasador to the UN was the only person in the room to have thier head on straight.

  • @jamesmontano5916
    @jamesmontano5916 5 лет назад +375

    Here from 3 blue 1 brown. Awesome work! Hope to see more awesome content in the future!

  • @gapenewell887
    @gapenewell887 5 лет назад +932

    Instructions unclear, accidentally sold my house and car for a footlong

    • @duo496
      @duo496 5 лет назад +24

      Johnny Blueballs it happens

    • @oworcestershire7331
      @oworcestershire7331 5 лет назад +25

      if you value that footlong more than transportation and shelter
      then the instructions were clear
      if not,
      then try to be stupid less cap'n

    • @gapenewell887
      @gapenewell887 5 лет назад +30

      @@oworcestershire7331 My wife left me because I made a "poor financial decision," but she doesn't truly realize how delicious that footlong was

    • @oworcestershire7331
      @oworcestershire7331 5 лет назад +12

      @@gapenewell887 you see?
      that's your surplus right there!

    • @ProfessionalGoober
      @ProfessionalGoober 5 лет назад +2

      @@oworcestershire7331 r/woooosh

  • @dannyalacali6165
    @dannyalacali6165 11 месяцев назад +2

    I tried to find an email to drop a message direct but couldn't one. I just wanted to say thank you! I use this video in my Supply and Demand Section of Business Foundations class with my high school students. Its a great visual to add to my lesson. THANK YOU!!

  • @hynjus001
    @hynjus001 5 лет назад +160

    I've come here to argue that everything in the video that doesn't fit my preexisting economics ideology is wrong but that the parts that do are brilliantly modeled.

    • @hynjus001
      @hynjus001 5 лет назад +26

      but on a serious note, introducing productive (entrepreneurial) response would be really interesting. For instance, a blob that sat on the sidelines and watches for unmet sales and then tries to compete

    • @Pippin1505
      @Pippin1505 5 лет назад +20

      @@hynjus001 Probably harder to model "simply", but introducing "barrier to entry" would help show the "natural" creation of oligopolies in specific conditions. e.g. the "sideline blob" will only enter if total unmet sales > barrier to entry.

    • @LeoMuzi
      @LeoMuzi 5 лет назад +5

      Actually it would be impossible to simulate an entirely reality-faithful case, because there's always the human behavior factor which is chaotic and, therefore, unpredictable (along with other N variables)

    • @soyderiverdeliverybeaver8941
      @soyderiverdeliverybeaver8941 5 лет назад +5

      @@LeoMuzi just by implementing the acumulation of money, each time a blob doesnt buy the daily rocket, you can get either a similar or same result.
      In a 2buy vs 1sell situation, the profit for the seller will go as high as *twice the poorer buyer daily budget*
      In a 3buy vs 2sell although, it gets a lot more complicated but the profit should still be about 150% as much

    • @BrunoAnton
      @BrunoAnton 5 лет назад +6

      Where does the money from the orange blobs come from? From the blue blobs? The only way the model demonstrated comes even close to working is the assumption that all the orange blobs get magic money.
      It's a good video that explains the benefits of market systems but he missed mentioning some of the severe limitations from his model.

  • @bloodreaver6097
    @bloodreaver6097 5 лет назад +938

    We're gonna talk about markets
    *immediately starts explaining the dynamics of selling weapons of mass destruction*

    • @MavMcLeod
      @MavMcLeod 5 лет назад +51

      Well, he said 'rockets', not ICBMs. In times of SpaceX and other private space companies your objection ist b*ll sh*t.

    • @michdem100
      @michdem100 5 лет назад +15

      @@MavMcLeod That's not what most people have in mind when they hear rockets. That's why those are called "Space Rockets" and not just "Rockets". Not to mention ICBMs and SpaceX are oddly specific examples.

    • @dominiklehn2866
      @dominiklehn2866 5 лет назад +39

      Well... They're not missiles...
      And they look like toys which is probably the goal here

    • @gregorygarrison572
      @gregorygarrison572 5 лет назад +23

      @@dominiklehn2866 Indeed, and they seem to be valued around $30, which is reasonable for a toy rocket.

    • @ped3752
      @ped3752 5 лет назад +33

      Oh boy i can't wait to buy my tactical missile for 30$ next week!

  • @immerensis6676
    @immerensis6676 4 года назад +3647

    I swear this guy is the only one who’s actually using what he learned from high school math.

    • @Jo-ho3zl
      @Jo-ho3zl 4 года назад +220

      this is microeconomics hahah

    • @a-ted
      @a-ted 4 года назад +82

      bruh its not even math

    • @sammywammie6702
      @sammywammie6702 4 года назад +45

      He is speaking the language of the GODS

    • @The-mountain
      @The-mountain 4 года назад +8

      ted the graph part is

    • @christianarnold4725
      @christianarnold4725 4 года назад +128

      @@a-ted economics is the study of money using math. At it's core, economics is just applying math and statistics to solve money issues.

  • @KingFrog368
    @KingFrog368 2 года назад +3

    Your video is probably the best easy-to-grasp economics explanation I've heard! Def subbing.

    • @nikitos29
      @nikitos29 2 года назад

      Why? It explain nothing.

  • @samesonite
    @samesonite 5 лет назад +314

    Pure gold.
    You should simulate the effects of minimum wages and tariffs

    • @TrojanHorse91
      @TrojanHorse91 5 лет назад +4

      Up

    • @lukei.1227
      @lukei.1227 5 лет назад +8

      Businesses, banks, and taxes

    • @williammedeiros2699
      @williammedeiros2699 5 лет назад +33

      samesonite no need to simulate, USA a great example of why minimum wage is bad is good enough, you’re making it ilegal for someone to work under the minimum and “removing the steps of ladder”, making it harder for those that are poor and need it.Try searching minimum wage and racism, in the US those groups were the same, just a way a eugenic method,But sounds really nice to those who don’t see the lies

    • @vaelophisnyx9873
      @vaelophisnyx9873 5 лет назад +59

      @@williammedeiros2699 no no no no no no no no no NO
      Minimum wage is a literal requirement for society to function at the level it does
      if you remove the floor, not a single industry in the world would be willing to pay more than a few cents for someone's time. The minimum wage was established so people could actually afford to live like humans, it's not making things harder on the poor, it's making it easier while making sure it's harder to exploit them.
      Give people more money and they have more to spend on stuff and oh boy look, the economy is flowing and functioning perfectly!!
      Take away the minimum wage? you get a stagnant economy, or worse, a dying one. If no one can buy anything, no one can sell anything. That is how you kill a country.
      And it has nothing to do with racism??? or eugenics???????????

    • @boomerremover352
      @boomerremover352 5 лет назад +54

      @@vaelophisnyx9873 if that's true, then why are there companies who pay more than minimum wage?

  • @bashubash
    @bashubash 4 года назад +5375

    insulin company blob: Well the insulin only costs me a few cents to produce,
    diabetic blobs: Great! so it won't be expensive
    Insulin company blob: but I would reaaallly enjoy keeping it for myself
    diabetic blobs: oh no

    • @gorkemvids4839
      @gorkemvids4839 4 года назад +304

      Insulin is pretty cheap everywhere else except dumbfuckistan

    • @christianlibertarian5488
      @christianlibertarian5488 4 года назад +79

      @@gorkemvids4839 Insulin is only available because of knows-better-than-you-I-just-watched-the-video-I-am-commenting-upon-istan.

    • @tyronejohnson8277
      @tyronejohnson8277 4 года назад +450

      sounds like an american problem.

    • @christianlibertarian5488
      @christianlibertarian5488 4 года назад +147

      @@tyronejohnson8277 Yes and no. The entire world benefits because the US funds 70-80% of world drug development costs. The US could, of course, stop this by allowing imports from other countries. But nooooo.

    • @AwfulnewsFM
      @AwfulnewsFM 4 года назад +238

      @@christianlibertarian5488 Alot of those patents never make it to the market since, creating a system for producing new better drugs is sometimes a risky investment since you need new infrastructure and might leave your older infrastructure useless if your old drug is out competed.
      Often these drugs rot on paper until the patent expires.

  • @indicus9075
    @indicus9075 5 лет назад +716

    $30 rocket
    NASA WANTS TO KNOW YOUR LOCATION

    • @makarevych
      @makarevych 5 лет назад +18

      Just a spaceX rocket in a few years

    • @Gallarday
      @Gallarday 5 лет назад +7

      Lol good point

    • @Bananappleboy
      @Bananappleboy 4 года назад +9

      That rocket was tiny, and probably had liquid fuel and stuff, explaining why it was worth 30 dollars.

    • @lescobrandon8443
      @lescobrandon8443 4 года назад +1

      @@makarevych Yup, but without fuel and will probably break before you get home. No refunds.

    • @joshe9409
      @joshe9409 4 года назад

      *DPRK

  • @officer_baitlyn
    @officer_baitlyn 3 года назад +6

    3:36 i was watching from pretty far away and was fully convinced that the blue bobs are wearing top hats

  • @TR2000LT
    @TR2000LT 5 лет назад +666

    Seller: _"How many rockets you want?"_
    Buyer: *Yes*

  • @elyssachandler4239
    @elyssachandler4239 5 лет назад +788

    me: looks away for 2 seconds
    primer: the population doubled and heres four new graphs and 3 new colored blobs with six new statistics

    • @DBStudios1098
      @DBStudios1098 4 года назад +7

      Underrated comment, happened to me to

    • @danieLeopardo
      @danieLeopardo 3 года назад +1

      And me, my english is pretty sad, so if i look away for 1 second, i have lost 3 words ho really crash my head

    • @TheHumanSystem
      @TheHumanSystem 3 года назад

      "Replicate like blobs."

  • @rubenzikarsky2496
    @rubenzikarsky2496 4 года назад +602

    I look foward to the day you have so many simulations of human behaviour, you kinda just combine them all together and can effectively simulate optimal behaviours for a thriving global community.

    • @gottgainz6477
      @gottgainz6477 2 года назад

      Your insane. Humans can not and should not be reduced to simulation. We are so much more, and any narrow attempt to calculate human behavior fails repeatedly.

    • @gottgainz6477
      @gottgainz6477 2 года назад +12

      And "a global community" is plainly impossible. It is utopian visons of this sort that weaken our nation.

    • @kylemeinhardt2140
      @kylemeinhardt2140 2 года назад +41

      @@gottgainz6477 Individual human behavior is difficult to simulate. But the rule of large numbers is not. Simply consider Monte Carlo simulations.

    • @PixelsPolygonsNPetrichor
      @PixelsPolygonsNPetrichor 2 года назад +3

      That whould be great Becuse then we could study them

    • @geraldkenneth119
      @geraldkenneth119 2 года назад +1

      The problem is such models would most likely be developed by hyper-rich people(or more accurately, their subordinates), like Jeff Bezos and Elon Musk, who have the money to fund them, and as such be used not for the benefit of humanity but for the benefit of a handful of greedy and probably-psychopathic individuals

  • @matthijsperabo7282
    @matthijsperabo7282 3 года назад +7

    I had an exam about Supply & Demand literally... 2 days ago. As I am quite good at economics, I think I nailed the exam, but this video makes it so easy to visualize what it looks like and I think that's really cool! I could understand everything you explained and it makes so much sense seeing it like this. Also, I just sent the link to my economy teacher for him to show his future students ;)

  • @munzeralseed
    @munzeralseed 5 лет назад +97

    You show a significant improvement with every new video you upload ! Keep impressing us !

  • @lillah6059
    @lillah6059 4 года назад +238

    Can we just take a moment to appreciate how amazing this channel is? Complex topics are explained in an easy-to understand way. Well done!
    Ps.: Also, the blobs are cute.

    • @erin1569
      @erin1569 3 года назад +3

      This video is fine as long as you don't stop your economic education on it.

    • @gustavowollinger2725
      @gustavowollinger2725 3 года назад +1

      @@erin1569 agreed, economy is about human action not blobs action lol

    • @mrblackscreen5558
      @mrblackscreen5558 2 года назад +3

      Those blobs are smarter than humans

    • @bingochen83
      @bingochen83 2 года назад

      @@mrblackscreen5558 um

    • @XQubes
      @XQubes Год назад +1

      @@mrblackscreen5558 agreed

  • @stev99d
    @stev99d 5 лет назад +128

    extremely high quality video! i love it.

  • @rtesdahl
    @rtesdahl 2 года назад +1

    I just discovered the Primer RUclips channel. I love these videos. One of my children is currently studying Economics and learning about supply and demand. This video is amazing and very helpful. Thank you so much for the videos, and I am sorry that I did not find them sooner. I hope that you are able to get the resources that you need to continue this wonderful effort.

  • @mrunknown8335
    @mrunknown8335 5 лет назад +3075

    Instructions unclear, Great Depression occured.

    • @MegaAlexPink
      @MegaAlexPink 4 года назад +153

      Still beats soviet mass starvation & gulag enslavement

    • @trikkage2381
      @trikkage2381 4 года назад +103

      Alex Pink nothing better than soviet mass starving like american mass starving

    • @Spider-Too-Too
      @Spider-Too-Too 4 года назад +38

      @@trikkage2381 it's voluntary starvation. kek

    • @YEASTY_COMMIE
      @YEASTY_COMMIE 4 года назад +76

      @@MegaAlexPink The soviets didn't starve, they ate about the same as Americans (and that's according to the CIA www.cia.gov/library/readingroom/docs/CIA-RDP84B00274R000300150009-5.pdf)
      America had, and still has, the biggest prison population in the world, by absolute, and relative numbers.
      Slavery is legal in these prisons, and it affects minorities disproportionately.

    • @allisond.46
      @allisond.46 4 года назад +42

      The Ukrainians did. See “Holodomor”.
      I have nothing against Ukrainians, but clearly someone did.

  • @timstraps
    @timstraps 5 лет назад +42

    These are quickly becoming some of my favorite videos. Keep up the great work!

  • @celtoucan4956
    @celtoucan4956 4 года назад +167

    Plot twist: primer is making these blobs to eventually evlove and create a utopia and take notes to make a real utopia

    • @jobkorn4085
      @jobkorn4085 3 года назад +4

      no they educate. They show some simple connection to show the reasons for real problems.

    • @celtoucan4956
      @celtoucan4956 3 года назад +11

      @@jobkorn4085 I know, I was joking

    • @Ballin4Vengeance
      @Ballin4Vengeance 3 года назад +2

      Omni-God Primer:
      YOU’RE ALL BLOBS TO ME

  • @CH-wd6qs
    @CH-wd6qs 2 года назад +1

    This is a fantastic video about what I leanred in my economics module this semester. Such an intuitive way of describing supply and demand

  • @ecogreen123
    @ecogreen123 5 лет назад +290

    2 things 1. STONKS 2.i would watch these mini avocado people build and maintain a city

  • @christopherg2347
    @christopherg2347 5 лет назад +78

    11:55 It is actually surprisingly simple.
    First of all, RUclips is not a video provider. Do not feel bad, most people make that msitake. It is a **Add Provider** that uses free videos to incentivise people watching said adds. Think of it like a road that is getting paid the add revenue from Billboards. In order to have a lot of revenue, a lot of people need to drive on the road.
    The thing now is, RUclips has a huge road network to choose from. It can thus chose the most travelled roads to put the Billboards up on. Roads are outright competing to get those adds/money/drivers.
    In order to streamline the process a little and increae overall add/people contact, it also tries to sugest people that like driving on certain roads, other roads to drive on.
    Roads are channels and/or Videos (depending how you look at it).
    And like/subscribe how it decides wich other roads some people would like to see.

    • @danzeman6847
      @danzeman6847 5 лет назад +5

      Christopher G nice analogy

    • @ikosimazaki723
      @ikosimazaki723 5 лет назад +2

      This analogy has a potential for being the next cute blobs video :O

    • @reallynobody2462
      @reallynobody2462 5 лет назад +7

      this man did it all well...
      but spelt ad as add...
      help me....

    • @christopherg2347
      @christopherg2347 5 лет назад +2

      @@reallynobody2462 I actively looked and could not find a *single* instane of me writing ad instead of add.

    • @reallynobody2462
      @reallynobody2462 5 лет назад +1

      *Add Provider*

  • @BartDeSmedt
    @BartDeSmedt 5 лет назад +38

    Awesome video's, thanks for visualising this, because it is a hard concept for a lot of people (if not most!)
    One small remark, a detail really. Somebody probably already mentioned it in the month this is online.
    Around 7:55, you draw the supply and demand curve. I think you mention them in the opposite order as you draw them.

    • @colerees3965
      @colerees3965 5 лет назад +3

      I second this remark

    • @NoNameC68
      @NoNameC68 5 лет назад +2

      I was a bit perplexed by this as well. I was wondering why the buyers represented "supply". Glad it's not just me.

  • @di5963
    @di5963 3 года назад +45

    it's great that you have shown what happens when a buyer has a monopoly on a product, some people genuinely don't why it's bad

  • @TheFirstLanx
    @TheFirstLanx 5 лет назад +22

    Just commenting to say that the supply of this product is raising my demand for such products.
    Keep up the good work.

  • @ratbabe455
    @ratbabe455 5 лет назад +466

    Minecraft villagers should get on this

  • @sergiomatundra7144
    @sergiomatundra7144 5 лет назад +344

    It would be really interesting to see how you do these animations with python and blender!

    • @fywq1649
      @fywq1649 5 лет назад +30

      Seconded - I want to see howto's on making this

    • @willaturner114
      @willaturner114 5 лет назад +2

      yea!

    • @animalplant4445
      @animalplant4445 5 лет назад +3

      he probably using the game engine in blender 2.79

    • @ali-uk6fo
      @ali-uk6fo 5 лет назад

      Read the description folks, he *is* using blender and Python.

    • @zUnderscore
      @zUnderscore 5 лет назад +33

      jojo joestar wow it’s almost like he asked how he does it in python and blender

  • @ElMilioGG
    @ElMilioGG 3 года назад +30

    There is a little mistake at 7:53. He mentions first the supply curve but the curve drawn first (orange) is the demand curve while the supply curve is the blue one. Just in case

    • @lucianallwine6029
      @lucianallwine6029 Год назад

      17:53? The vid is 12:22 minutes long

    • @ElMilioGG
      @ElMilioGG Год назад

      @@lucianallwine6029 Fixed! Two years later XD

    • @jakeaustria5445
      @jakeaustria5445 11 месяцев назад

      😂😂😂😂​@@lucianallwine6029

    • @ashron6062
      @ashron6062 6 месяцев назад

      yeah . blue is supply curve and orange is demand curve.

  • @Arnaz87
    @Arnaz87 5 лет назад +22

    RUclips sent me to the Natural Selection Simulator and I had to binge watch you series.
    Now I'm sad cause it's over :(
    Really good content!

  • @eeeeffgcmbbffk2209
    @eeeeffgcmbbffk2209 5 лет назад +361

    What would happen if you did this model again with customer loyalty?

    • @allstarwoo4
      @allstarwoo4 5 лет назад +37

      Customer loyalty is too big of an idea and isn't always rational in the efficient market sense..

    • @revolver265
      @revolver265 5 лет назад +76

      @@allstarwoo4 Yeah, sometimes it does get a little excessive, so it's difficult to quantify it.
      And about rationality *annoyed look at Apple*

    • @jgruen9854
      @jgruen9854 5 лет назад +7

      The utility derived from purchasing from that seller will be higher and the buyer will be willing to pay more. It will look more like a monopolistic competition model, where products are differentiated.

    • @allstarwoo4
      @allstarwoo4 5 лет назад +2

      Andrei Yang in honesty it wouldn’t surprise me if we see apple collapse within our generation with the way they’re going. Before I would understand they’re pushing the limits of a cellphone now not so much I still choose an iPhone but more for ubiquity of accessories and cheaper replacement parts. I really wish android market would catch up to justify me switching.

    • @ParallaxFPV
      @ParallaxFPV 5 лет назад +11

      The problem is it's very difficult to simulate the emotional/subliminal response that marketing has on people, these simulations seem to be approached from a strictly utilitarian perspective, which makes sense for explaining general concepts as the channel sets out to do.
      But the desire for the status that an object brings someone is pretty subjective and would have to take into account someone's level of wealth, their social circles, their upbringing, religion etc. There might be a simpler way of simulating the principle, but to get an accurate idea of how it plays out in the real world seems pretty complex.

  • @Skyblade22
    @Skyblade22 5 лет назад +11

    Just blasted through all your vids, I'm sad there aren't more, good luck with your channel and I hope you keep making more cool stuff!

  • @drollestprawn
    @drollestprawn 3 года назад +12

    I like how you can learn stuff from these videos and also be entertained.

    • @schrodingersdad6077
      @schrodingersdad6077 2 года назад +1

      Exactly.
      Haven't binged educational videos like this, ever.

  • @damianpark3787
    @damianpark3787 5 лет назад +107

    No one has asked the most important question:
    What do the blobs do with the rockets?

    • @AJ69238
      @AJ69238 5 лет назад +22

      **nervous sweating**

    • @davidreno6
      @davidreno6 4 года назад +19

      Eat them

    • @apullo
      @apullo 4 года назад +42

      They need to purchase 1 rocket to live, but if they get two they can reproduce.

    • @metzger5850
      @metzger5850 4 года назад +5

      I think they buy and sell them

    • @Zack-eq3ou
      @Zack-eq3ou 4 года назад +3

      That implies that the blobs are absolutely huge, and I don’t like that

  • @megateamame6776
    @megateamame6776 5 лет назад +4

    I’m a bit late but you explain everything so well and everything is easy to understand while being really complicated at its core, you’re doing an amazing job

  • @_____alyptic
    @_____alyptic 5 лет назад +253

    HAMILTON'S RULE IS A LIE! - Can't wait for a video on that ='D

  • @laylatto105
    @laylatto105 Год назад +2

    I love the numbers that he uses in all his videos. Whenever explaining things to my kids when large groups of people or money is involved, I use 10’s upto 100 and sometimes upto 1000 (my numbers are 100’s if I need to go upto that 1000) depending on what we’re discussing and calculating.
    I’ll definitely be using his videos when I need a bit of help explaining bc ALL his examples I’ve seen are fabulous

  • @Novadolls
    @Novadolls 5 лет назад +128

    I love the educational blobs and I want seven in plushie format

    • @SapioiT
      @SapioiT 5 лет назад +3

      Silly me, I initially misred it as "educational boobs"... *_smh_*

    • @ecogreen123
      @ecogreen123 5 лет назад +1

      what about on a t-shirt or mug? XD

    • @ihsahnakerfeldt9280
      @ihsahnakerfeldt9280 5 лет назад +1

      This would be a great idea for merch. I legitimately can see him do that when the channel gets big enough.

    • @yiqi-debate-7817
      @yiqi-debate-7817 5 лет назад +1

      I demand a green bearded altruistic blob, where is my supply!

  • @jimsmith1856
    @jimsmith1856 5 лет назад +278

    This is an example of why "the war on drugs" continues to make the drug trade profitable.

    • @PanthereaLeonis
      @PanthereaLeonis 4 года назад +80

      Yeah. Limiting the sellers and getting the buyers to compete will always make more money for the sellers. That's why you gotta limit the buyers first. If nobody's buying, nobody would care to sell.

    • @mateuszjokiel2813
      @mateuszjokiel2813 4 года назад +31

      @@PanthereaLeonis Let's kill all the diabetic people, this'll solve the insulin problem in the US!

    • @MRGCProductions20996
      @MRGCProductions20996 4 года назад +32

      @@mateuszjokiel2813 how about we de-regulate the healthcare market, and let sellers compete to drop the prices of insulin? I dont care about your health problems, I am an individual who has the same average abilities as you do. If I can take a loan and start an insulin producing business then so can you. the same way you dont get to force me to start said business, you dont get to force me to run it as you see fit. If it werent for those 'evil' insulin sellers, you wouldnt even have the chance to buy insulin. expensive insulin is better than no insulin. and like i said, if it is really the case that insulin traders are just lazy capitalists who put no effort and rip tons of profit for selling a substance that in your opinion should be cheap, then nothing stops you from taking a loan, join said low risk high reward market and become a billionare. or even better, put your words where your mouth is and drop your prices to trigger the sought market effect. we all like to talk about how things 'should be' but nobody is willing to do jack shit about it. and using the government to force businesses to act the way you want them to, is the surest way to make them say: 'fuck this, im out, im selling/burning all my shit and moving away' (which by the way they would have every right to do and that would not make them bad people because it was them who created the whole business from scratch to begin with). but hey, there is hope for you. a couple of years ago i was a hardcore socialist. until 'democratic socialism' hit my country and I started understanding the principles of economics and voluntarism

    • @mateuszjokiel2813
      @mateuszjokiel2813 4 года назад +23

      @@MRGCProductions20996 Yeah first of all, you really thought it appropriate to reply an essay to a fucking joke?
      And second, its contents are so fucking stupid, I'm just gonna sit here and laugh instead of bothering to argue your non-points. They're just too hilarious.

    • @brownmm5825
      @brownmm5825 4 года назад +39

      MRGCProductions20996 you do realize that buyers would compete to raise prices even more, right? I’m not saying that those big pharma capitalists are lazy, but there is something immoral about them. Buyers who have diabetes can’t “put their money where their mouth is” and lower prices, because they need insulin. Big pharma companies are raising prices, so the buyers must compete to raise their prices too. Buyers can’t survive if they lower prices, because that’s basically a boycott of an essential for them. When insulin was originally patented, it was intended to be as cheap as 1 dollar because it was an absolute necessity to some people. Buyers right now have very little power to regulate the market because these huge companies are far outnumbered by buyers, which is insanely advantageous for them. Deregulation will not do jack shit to help the problem, as major companies can keep increasing prices.

  • @Jebusmike3
    @Jebusmike3 5 лет назад +495

    Your simulation of an idealistically free market was very interesting. Could you simulate the opposite next?

    • @Schattengewaechs99
      @Schattengewaechs99 5 лет назад +10

      Wich would be?

    • @MattPryze
      @MattPryze 5 лет назад +123

      @@Schattengewaechs99 A subsidized market where some of the people receive government money that's taxed from the income of the rest. Watch shit explode lmao.

    • @Verrisin
      @Verrisin 5 лет назад +30

      @@MattPryze Isn't that just 11:17 ?

    • @romulloqueiroz
      @romulloqueiroz 5 лет назад +16

      Just look at North Korea or Venezuela.

    • @danilooliveira6580
      @danilooliveira6580 5 лет назад +58

      that depends a lot on the type of market, there are MANY ways to break a market. I believe the simplest and more common way would be if the sellers decided between themselves to artificially adjust the asking price to maximize the profit of the seller. I'm not sure how you would create a simulation of it because you would have to include things like necessary products for survival or changes in the maximum buying price representing changes in behavior caused by the necessity of buying the product. you also would need to include desirability, the simplest way being the product of the seller with the cheapest minimum price is less desirable, and maybe a few more things... basically, this simulation is way too simple to show more complicate things like that.

  • @RadiantSharaShaymin
    @RadiantSharaShaymin 3 года назад +1

    I always appreciate someone that can truly even out finicky subjects by pointing out real and understandable benefits of both sides.
    Especially without feeling the need to throw in a detailed explanation of why the side they like is mathematically, historically, artfully, and objectively better.

  • @thisdyingsoul666
    @thisdyingsoul666 5 лет назад +4

    This is the best explanation that I saw in my life of how and why the supply/demand curve works. Excelent videos

    • @YR96YR
      @YR96YR 5 лет назад +1

      except it doesn't work in real life, because if you don't have any money, your demands can never be met and therefore, you starve.

  • @danp832
    @danp832 5 лет назад +5

    This is such a perfect simplistic as possible explanation of things. I need more!!!

  • @Egon_Cholakian
    @Egon_Cholakian 5 лет назад +5

    I just found my new favorite channel. I’d love to see something about the social dynamic of RUclips. Idk ur the creative one so I’m dying to see what ideas you can spin out of that

  • @archer5915
    @archer5915 3 года назад +71

    This reminds me of the time a game company tried to overcharge for limited cosmetics and the entire community bullied them into lower prices

  • @ratrandom2360
    @ratrandom2360 4 года назад +36

    I love how all the blobs wave
    11:08

  • @Aburaishi
    @Aburaishi 5 лет назад +75

    Now simulate with advertising - have sellers with a higher surplus influence blob opinion to expect a higher price from their store and a lower price from others

    • @Luffi98
      @Luffi98 5 лет назад +7

      Wow, Marketing would be pretty hard to implement. but would be awesome

    • @jensw6314
      @jensw6314 5 лет назад

      or try to simulate that the sellers that sold a lot can produce cheaper after some time :P

    • @KaiserTom
      @KaiserTom 5 лет назад

      Marketing influences the information aspect as well as potentially segmenting the market as its own independant market (Is coke ok? No!). But fundamentally, marketing basically banks value. You spend money to this "brand value bank" in customers minds. Those customers then become more willing to spend more money on the specific brand of product than lesser money on another brand or "generic" version. This "bank" can gain interest in the form of word of mouth (which is the most effective type of marketing) and it can also be drained by abusing their customers such as by charging higher prices or changing the product to be less inherently valuable. The "brand value bank" may be large and slow to drain, and perhaps the "interest rate"/word of mouth generates just as much value as is drained, but people will eventually change products.

    • @ozymandias8523
      @ozymandias8523 3 года назад

      Or how higher investment in capital goods will reduce the cost of producing rockets and increase surplus on the transactions.

  • @corykiesling
    @corykiesling 5 лет назад +7

    The time you must take to polish everything so well that you don't need over-stimulated audio/visuals, ever, is impressive. You choose and mold great content, all around. I look forward to being a student. (Also, I second Lennart Miau)

  • @Redskies453
    @Redskies453 2 года назад +6

    There are a lot of great things about this video, raising the issue of market intervention without expressing bias is the best. Such an important question, and so respectful to the learner to allow them to start their journey with a clean slate.

  • @leonardovaldivia5200
    @leonardovaldivia5200 5 лет назад +6

    Seing so many things going on confuses me, but your explanation solves every doubt :)

  • @ngthethird3771
    @ngthethird3771 5 лет назад +10

    Blobs, Evolution, Natural Selection, Markets, Economics and Green Beards?! Subscribed!

  • @insertgoodname8590
    @insertgoodname8590 5 лет назад +441

    Rip the guy selling rockets in the right cuz no one wants his rockets😭
    Edit: Since no one likes when people say thanks for the likes I'd like to say that you guys are horrible people and I am the best person in the world.

    • @NamelessKnightt
      @NamelessKnightt 5 лет назад +84

      He got greedy and put the price too high now nobody wants his rockets

    • @frocco7125
      @frocco7125 4 года назад +10

      F

    • @christac
      @christac 4 года назад +65

      Or maybe he couldn’t get the resources to make the rockets as cheap as his competitors could. And he has to make a profit, thus forcing him to have his prices higher

    • @frocco7125
      @frocco7125 4 года назад +23

      @@NamelessKnightt Maybe he had no other options. Maybe if he put the price any lower he would have made a net loss.

    • @JediEdi
      @JediEdi 4 года назад +20

      This is so sad press F to pay respects I'm shaking and crying rn

  • @Guayubino
    @Guayubino Год назад

    I've watched this video dozens of times and i can't stop appreciating how excellent everything is when it comes to explaining the concept.

  • @gabeangelomusic
    @gabeangelomusic 5 лет назад +101

    Yesterday: natural selection
    Today: Markets
    Tomorrow: Space travel

    • @SapioiT
      @SapioiT 5 лет назад +6

      Or taxes. Though taxes would be difficult to simulate. But it will be hella interesting!

    • @caorusso4926
      @caorusso4926 5 лет назад +2

      Tomorrow: the world

    • @ohokay4663
      @ohokay4663 5 лет назад +2

      @@SapioiT I'd love for him to simulate taxes somehow because I'm like 16 and I took 2 economic classes at school and still basically dont get it

    • @buyrcsp2
      @buyrcsp2 4 года назад

      @@caorusso4926 futurama: tomorrow world

    • @bonbonpony
      @bonbonpony 4 года назад +1

      They already got rockets :J

  • @benshalev878
    @benshalev878 5 лет назад +172

    I guarantee if u will produce more content (I know it’s hard and takes time) your channel will reach a million subs by the end of the year

    • @jackwuchannel
      @jackwuchannel 5 лет назад +13

      I think over the course of the last 24 hours he's gained at least 30k subs(44k --> 83k in 28hrs or so). Of course, he'll slow down eventually, as he's being blessed by the YT algorithm rn, but at this rate he'll be at 1 million in like 5 weeks.

    • @me_hanics
      @me_hanics 5 лет назад +2

      Jack Wu yes but this won't happen.. he might reach 230k soon but it will slow down for sometime

    • @robinfrenzy
      @robinfrenzy 5 лет назад +8

      @@jackwuchannel It will grow exponentially at first then slow down until it hits the carrying capacity limit

    • @kaiseremotion854
      @kaiseremotion854 5 лет назад

      @@me_hanics
      Its at 235* mb

    • @kaiseremotion854
      @kaiseremotion854 5 лет назад

      He has a really good views to subs ratio

  • @GenJoseGhost
    @GenJoseGhost 5 лет назад +26

    Amazing video. Going to use your simulation on my classes of ECON101.
    I think you should explore better the surplus concept since it is not so simple to understand to someone which is not used to the marginalist theory of price formation and determination.

  • @devinwalton408
    @devinwalton408 3 года назад

    This is legitimately the best way of introducing supply and demand curves I have ever seen. Very intuitive.

  • @achillegermain1303
    @achillegermain1303 5 лет назад +11

    Awesome work! Also, it would be great if you made a series about the emergence of economic theorems through simulation, maybe also relating concepts from operations research. I’m really interested in those fields and your method of laying out their basic assumptions and building to more complex behavior is both clear and intuitive.

  • @GamerTime_2002
    @GamerTime_2002 5 лет назад +192

    Now let's talk about monopolies and corruption

    • @emr1d341
      @emr1d341 4 года назад +8

      As it's said, the system isn't broken, it's fixed.

    • @IrvingIV
      @IrvingIV 4 года назад +15

      @Ping Moshe
      Poor intervention that is motivated by bribery, but not by proper intervention.

    • @theclockworkcadaver7025
      @theclockworkcadaver7025 4 года назад +23

      @@IrvingIV "proper" (thanks for introducing your own subjective, completely arbitrary standard) interventions or not, they're still government interventions. Shrink the government and you automatically reduce the problem of monopolies.

    • @IrvingIV
      @IrvingIV 4 года назад +11

      @@theclockworkcadaver7025
      All standards for the threshhold at which success is declared are subjective, yes.
      Please, provide an objectively correct path for future government intervention, one which will prevent monopolies.
      And if you believe a lack of government intervention will prevent monopolies, explain why.

    • @TheMaztercom
      @TheMaztercom 4 года назад +8

      @@IrvingIV he is a libtard, he dont know about economy, he just repeat an argument he read, he said that goverment make monopolies, when goverment regulated the market to prevent monopolies, and if you see real examples, like adobe buying flash because was competing against him, you can see, free markets are broken, and without goverment, well...

  • @butterflygroundhog
    @butterflygroundhog 5 лет назад +20

    Every primer video until now:
    What is life
    This video:
    Lol have an economy!
    Seripisly, though, great video!

  • @MrMasteryder
    @MrMasteryder 4 года назад

    My dude your videos look so nice, I can't even imagine the effort you put into them. Not only they look good but I learn stuff. Good Job :D