Cerulean City has an 11.1% unemployment rate 

He does sing and compose music. He's not describing RU-vidrs as "glorified adult lullaby composers", he's both a RU-vidr _and_ a composer. His musical style does indeed sound like lullabies that adults would enjoy.

​@@Accrovideogamesno, I think he was calling these videos lullaby's for adults. 😅 I know I use them to get to sleep. Besides, he seems proud of his music and describes it pretty clearly as a hobby. "Glorified" in that context implys he gives it more prestige and less respect than that.

Hahah Austin knows his demographic, we love the chill vibe of these videos when it’s time for shut eye

I wish your soul well

Good luck

Nice!

this comment made me want to jump off a cliff

This video series made me apply to become a Pokemon

And keep in mind that bottle caps seems to be valuable in the pokemon world.

Well, you ARE legally required to pay taxes on stolen income, and the IRS can't arrest you for admitting to crimes on your taxes.

its the only true form of employment outside Shops and gangs like team rocket. This guy must be smoking too much because hes wrong on a lot of things. Like Ash's mom, he says shes unemployed but she actually runs Pallet towns only restaurant. But where is that restaurant you may say? it doesn't matter is the answer. This guy is wrong about a lot of stuff its fun to watch but if its not true....not worth watching anymore

I mean, it says you "paid [amount] to the winner" before you black out, so it seems more like some kind of enforced rule in regard to Pokémon battles that you must pay the winner if possible. Who enforces these battle rules and how the amount is determined are unclear. Also, other trainers (many of whom are actually not kids) do not appear to black out, this seems to be unique to the player character. Perhaps he/she simply does not handle losing/party wipes well.

​@@ravinraven6913The anime or whatever you're pulling that from is not canon to the videogame. Only the information presented to you directly in the game can be taken at face value.

@@ravinraven6913 You do realize Silph Co. is based in Saffron City, and has an 11 story office building, right? There's lots of employment in Pokemon that isn't just sales, gambling, or criminal activity.

I agree and he provides an invaluable service but then I had the question, does he actually generate income? Or does he work as hard as a job for his hobby? Great point about the alternative currency but is there an exchange rate or are they just caps?

@@thadjarvis9514 They're just caps, he's a collector.

@@thadjarvis9514considering what service he is offering those caps with him are worth more then gold.

>provides an "educational" service on the side >people under the age of 18 >"alternative currency" >furthering his own "hobbies" 🤨📸

@@LuckySketches oh no

The enumerator pierced and peered through hearts today

Kanto’s Operation Paperclip is a thing now

Nah, it'd be federal employment

@@emeraldcityelicitor2281 either way he shouldn't have been counted for Cerulean

What if he is working for Saffron but living in Cerulean?

If a federal employee lives in a town ain’t they an employed local citizen?

But they might live in their respective towns

they are not very accurate, they are fun though. But yea, its not really true. Gym leader isn't employed, we have no information that they get paid, or that they can be replaced. Except with pokemon yellow in Kogas gym. But he wasn't fired, he stepped down for his daughter? to take over. That's not employment that is ownership. And short of the money they get from you for winning, they don't make a single cent So really yea, these are fun but so far from reality.

He misses officer Jenny everytime

​@@sonofillahee937I like to think that we simply don't count police officer as a legitimate job

@@ravinraven6913ownership is considered employment by the Census Bureau. Employment gets further subdivided into other categories. It would be self-employment.

@@ravinraven6913The Pokémon League runs the gyms so the Gym Leaders appear to be legitimately employed by them. Along with Koga and Janine in the Gen 2/Gen 4 remake games we see Blue take over/get hired to run the Viridian Gym post-Giovanni. In the Gen 5 games we see Cheron became a gym leader in the sequel games. And depending on the version of the games you had we can see Iris step down as a gym leader and Drayden returning to fill the position. We do also see some gym leaders have other jobs such as teacher or mayor but it still appears they are hired by the Pokémon League at least part time to run and maintain the gyms.

Not only mewtwo, but also every pokemon in there are very high level and therefore very dangerous. And since you can enter the cave after beating the elite four, it is implied that the reason the guard blocks the entrance is that most trainers are too weak to defend themselves there

It's easy to assume he might be a ranger of sort keeping both the ecosystem and dumb tourists out of harm's way. God bless him!

Considering he leaves after you've become champion and are authorized to enter that cave he's employed by the regional government

what political structure? The only one we see is the Gyms and Pokemon league. No ones Voted in so its not a democracy. Seems like a dictatorship which is why there are so few people left alive...that pokemon war really messed things up. theres like 10x more kids than adults

Kanto and Johto are regions of the same country.

@@saiyanfang1047 how do you figure? Because they're both based on areas in japan? So are hoenn and sinnoh but they each have their own league. Pretty sure that in the pokemon world a "region" is a country

@@blakdeth Leagues tend to exist locally and nationally. Kanto, Johto, Sinnoh, and Hoenn all seem to work together well. Also countries exist in Pokémon with Mew being found in Brazil.

@@saiyanfang1047 references to real contries have been retconned out. When pokemon was first created they hadn't decided to make their world unique yet, but since then text has been changed to better fit what they're going for now

I gotta know about the sprout tower monks in johto, too

This is the second place it comes up in my life, as an "enumeration" is also a variable type used in computer science to correlate numbers to readable words. IE: enum v = {red, green, blue}; In that case, those words can be used as if they were numbers, where red = 0, green = 1, and so on. The most common usage for this is just to make things easier to read, because 'blue' can tell you a lot more about what's going on then just '2' even if these things mean the same thing to the computer. And yes, this does mean that you can do things like "red + 1" and it will produce 'green' just some fun knowledge in case anyone cares.

@@SilverDragonJay That's interesting, thank you for sharing.

@@SilverDragonJay valuable knowledge, appreciated kind sir.

I was going to say this. I’m deeply disappointed that the enumerator would forget such a critical individual

@@hidys40 I am interested to see how the enumerator handles the power plant area though.

⁠@@hidys40the enumerator was told by the higher ups “if you value your life stay as far away from that cave as possible”

very interesting point anarchism of some form is well supported by the lack of police response seen when team rocket openly engages in criminal conspiracies involving large gatherings of members and coercion of civilians, as seen at goldenrod city's radio tower in particular. security guards are known to operate near goldenrod city, outside of city limits, but they may be a local volunteer force akin to a neighborhood watch or militia the takeover of the goldenrod city radio tower in particular would've been especially noticeable across the region. that lance, a Kanto native, did not intervene suggests that even the league itself may operate this way: B and C may be the same possibility

just don't think about what he says too much. Any normal person will find a lot of things wrong with what he says....employment means someone else is paying you, so no one pays the gym leaders. The Gym leaders own the gym themselves. And again, no one pays them. No one pays to get in or to challenge them. Only one who makes money is the markets. And we can't even prove they make money. How much is a pokeball whole sale and how can I get that? I have max money I should be able to buy bulk from some one else. So they must make their own pokeball, or be part of the company that does. And that leaves Team Rocket and farmers markets who make money. But then he also says player characters mom in pokemon red/blue/yellow is unemployed, but if you look that up, she owns and runs Pallet towns ONLY restaurant so shes employed...so WHAT ELSE IS HE WRONG ABOUT.... really doesn't take that much effort, so what hes doing is using his own opinion which isn't based in fact or reality...his videos are fun but wrong.

@@ravinraven6913wow, it looks like you’ve put a lot of thought into this. Perhaps you should make your own video with your interpretation!

@@ravinraven6913point about the Gyms is wrong, they are federated by the Indigo League, and obviously the gym leaders change over time so that makes no sense. Point about the mom also obviously wrong because this is about the game not the anime canon, there are zero restaurants in Pallet in game

Yes a chance to see economies evolving!

It's a straight up licensed profession with official, league-issued trainer cards and probably all the necessary legal paperwork

According to canon novelizations, people as young as 10 are considered adults in the Pokemon world, or at least in Kanto. It's never brought up in the games or anime, though. If you view this through a modern American lens it makes sense not to count them, even when some states have lightened their views on child labor as of late. I would say any call is up to the enumerator and their higher-ups. As for the yellow bridge north of Cerulean City, that's called Nugget Bridge and it's infamous for being a recruitment place for Team Rocket. The five trainers on the bridge are all Rocket operatives battling passers-by. They gauge how you handle yourself in battle there and may offer you a position with the criminal enterprise. Not sure how you would count known criminals in your survey. (Guess we will find out in Celadon.)

​@@elpegaso I think the key elements of organized crime, counts Team Rocket Members as employed, especially the uniformed grunts. Historically, members of the Thieve's Guild were clearly part of an organization practicing a profession. Random muggers or opportunistic vagrants were, however, unemployed. As for the kids on nugget bridge, I don't think the first 5 are strictly affiliated with Rocket, but are sort of being manipulated to be part of this scheme.

Considering how some of the trainers that challenge you out in the wild are clearly as young as being outright toddlers, I don't think it's accurate to call 10 years old as the lower limit. Even some of the people in more official positions, like gym trainers and even leaders, are pretty clearly younger than 10.

Just because they can be employed doesn't mean they count towards unemployment does it? We don't consider 16 year olds in the real world "unemployed" if they aren't working do we?

gem of a human.....gems are like a few dollars, Red coral is a gem but its like $12 for a handful...so are you saying hes a dime a dozen?

That bit sent me, hilarious

@@ravinraven6913you are up and down this comment section saying the most unhinged shit imaginable, please touch grass and seek counseling

And also Bruno got his elite four position thanks to his connections, since he is too weak to be an elite four member. Corruption also exists in the Pokémon world

it’s giving, father

Let's Go is in a near identical parallel timeline. Red and Blue have been aged up and replaced, but everything else is the same. I suspect Red and Blue would still end up in the same places they do in the main canon during HGSS. So, I'd say they're close enough to compare.

The Pokemon Tower development is pretty interesting in general. The renovation was funded by Giovanni to function as a testing ground for mass-produced Silph Scopes, but once Rocket was disbanded, local radio technicians probably took over the half-finished Rocket base when it was determined that demolishing it could have horrible consequences due to the resident spirits.

Lt Surge is American, so why not Honduras?