"I was a capitalist on a Minecraft Roleplay server" 

Another quality video as always! Yousa make my day with new videos! ❤

You actually did it, you absolute madman. That was my comment verbatim. Thank you for representing me so well. My legacy can live on after I have passed away.

Minecraft potions are an interesting case. They require specialized materials, and follow complex, multi-step recipes that nobody memorizes, that can be totally ruined by following a wrong step. The process is especially finnicky to automate, since hoppers tend to drain out the inputs before they're processed. In short, potions are something that everybody has a use for, but typically nobody bothers to make themselves, meaning it's a perfect candidate for capitalistic exploitation.

Tip for novice potion sellers: You can increase the price by at least 50% if you think of a silly name for your brew and rename it

I remember accumulating a chest full of diamonds, emeralds, gold, lapis, etc. on a big server a friend of mine hosted. At one point I wanted to build an underground forest as part of my house, but couldn’t be bothered digging an enormous cavern, so I paid 8 people in material riches to dig it for me. It was a very cool little emergent thing lol

I love the implication that Minecraft exists in the Star Wars universe.

Turmoil has engulfed the Separatist's Minecraft server. The prices of potions to the playerbase is in dispute. Hoping to resolve the matter with a blockade of deadly lingering potions of poison and harming, the greedy Dexter Jettster has stopped all shipping to the small village on the plains biome. While the mods of the Separatists endlessly debates this alarming chain of events, the server owner has secretly dispatched Obi-Wan Kenobi, the guardian of peace and justice in the game, to settle the conflict…

This is a great example of the relative nature of value in a free market. The potion brewer is a skilled alchemist and has a streamlined supply of materials to brew potions in bulk, so their value is quite low to him. Meanwhile to the other players, they DON'T have the skills or desire to make those potions, but they do have a lot of currency from whatever else they've been doing on the server. They can afford the potions and are willing to pay because they are very useful to them. The brewer thinks he's ripping people off, the customer thinks they're getting a good deal. In fact, both parties have gained from the transaction.

Seems like Master Dexter has finally retired and is now trying to sell ObiWan his autobiography “On how well your manners are, and how big your pocketbook is” in Minecraft

His cocky smile at the end got me lmao

Me when I sell PopTarts in rich areas and get away with a 700% markup

It is true, I was the potion seller of a server. There were a few who sold it as well but I was fast. I had a client that put an order down for 1000 potions. Ive made them under 3 hours. So ppl always came to me for orders

But, hey, at least this time he wasn't banned.

Imagine having to pay 2 diamonds for a speed 1 potion, jokes on you, it's actually 3 gold.

Watching Dooku mining blocks is funny for some reason

Funny, I was just talking to some friends about how fun of an idea a “Dexter” short series would be. Our idea was that It be about Dexter telling stories to patrons about infamous tales and exploits across the galaxy. Now here I am finding a goofy video the very next day that basically showcases that exact vision we talked about lol

Back when I played on Mincreaft servers, I made insanely big cactus farms together with my faction. They were so big that a double chest was like filled up in a minute or so. Instead of selling the cactus 1 after 1 which would take a lot of time. I put my cactus up for sale so people could bid on my inventories and I earned a great profit these farms. I used the credits to buy super hard to get enchanted armours and weapons with modded abilities lol.

so it was just like a bar in real life

The people who made all the money during gold rushes were those who sold pickaxes, whiskey, assaying, laundry services, hostelry, comfort/entertainment services, livery stables (horse/donkey/mule rentals), and groceries. Those who sought gold and silver mainly ended up bankrupt, even if they found it.

“So can I buy stuff here?” “Well that depends… on how good your manners are… how big your… pocket book is.”

I was very disappointed when Dooku did NOT, in fact, say "It's Dookuin time" and proceed to Dooku all over Dex's MineCantina

What did I just watch? Did I just watch a a bartender say he was over charging people 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

I love the new lore

Gods, I actually was in a roleplay raid based server as a brewer, ended up in the back of a war mongering fortress that somehow established itself fairly strong being payed by other noble factions to protect or get rid of their problems. I slowly worked my way towards custom commissioned drinks for the richer ilk and because brewers we're rare (The faction I was in totally didn't scoop up almost every brewer they could find and the alchemy zone was filled with maybe 6 people at a time) I was able to squirm my way up to the higher echelons overtime. My downfall was when poisoning became a thing through a food plug in and I was assumed to be the culprit

Dooku holding up the Diamond Ore sent me 💀

Dooku holding the diamond cube over his head with that kind of conviction is priceless.

Stories like this remind me of this one time I joined a server with its own economy system modded into it. Sheets of paper were used to purchase things through the server. I found an abandoned paper factory, like, someone had literally set up this mechanism underground to just generate lots of paper as quickly and efficiently as possible. So, I used it (there was no theft involved, it was self-regenerating) and accumulated a bunch of paper, then I just started buying what I wanted, asking people what they wanted and saying, "Oh, yeah, I have that", and so on. Didn't break the economy or anything like that, I just embraced philanthropy for my entire time on the server, and nobody ever questioned how this random newcomer just always seemed to have everything that anyone ever needed or wanted. I sometimes wonder if something like this could even happen in today's Minecraft, or if I just had this totally unique and rare experience that is now permanently lost to time. I should note, I'm not that bright.

Bro became Nestlé in Minecraft XD

Never knew that Dexter was so extortionate.🤑

The Ferengi would be pleased.

Good on him. If nobody else wanted to set up a potion shop then it's their lazy fault that he got to overcharge so much. That's just simple competition, you charge what you can get away with, if you can't get away with it you lower prices until you make more than the competition.

Hehe, what a story, Mark. Sad that's Dooku didn't say a thing...

Welcome to pharmaceuticals!

"Pay or Pay Not, there is no "what they really should have been.. The consumer the prices set, yes hrmm!"

I once was a monarch in a Minecraft server. Xray was allowed so i mined every last diamond in that 10k×10k world Making me the king of that world beign the only one to have netherite tools and armour and an enchanting table that i kept hidden because claims wont stop people from using your enchanting table

I mean he worked by himself, so that could also just be unregulated market socialism

Reminds me of when I was a farmer on a communist Minecraft server. For a brief moment I experienced a communist utopia.

I am always the designated brewer of the server, this is literally my story LMAOOO

If nobody even tries to compete then enjoy the monopoly

I like how obi wan has a chuckle about it

Keep doing this please, it is peak comedy at its finest.

I don't know why, but Dooku throwing the gem was pretty satisfying

gymnopedie is just a Cherry on top

1:03 Exept that price is subjective.

this is literally the type of stuff dexter would do too

I would have thought “wow only 1 diamond for a potion that lasts ten minutes.”

bro this is wild

On one of my favorite HL2DM RP servers (which now no longer exists) was a very interesting player. He never used a weapon, but at the same time he was always in the top of the most influential and wealthy people on the server. You ask me, "How did he achieve this? Did he really pay for this?". No, there was no DarkRP back then. It was an old classic HL2DM server, there were no service or donations. The server lived solely on the money of the administration itself. But let's get back to the story. There used to be legends about this interesting player (let's call him "Billy") that once upon a time, he was also an ordinary pro player. Billy was so full of his aim and combat skills that he just got bored - and then a very brilliant idea came to his mind: He decided to pay players to kill and rob other players instead of him (and in return they received a percentage of the loot). Billy knew perfectly well which player posed which threat to him and other players, and who was fighting whom, respectively, he always knew who to use against whom. It was always a very generous offer - to defeat your sworn enemy, and even for money. No one has ever been able to refuse his offer. Sometimes, newcomers came to the server. Imagine the picture: You're playing on a regular server, where most of the players just like to shoot at each other for fun. And suddenly, an unarmed man comes around the corner in front of you, and you have a pistol or a SMG with you. And this player is not even aggressive towards you. He can easily be robbed or even killed. Sounds pretty funny, right? That's what many people thought - until an ultra-high reward was assigned to their heads, for which any pro player was ready to hunt for weeks or even months. And I was one of those newbies...

Twice the price, double the haul >:)

Casual price gouging from the Dexter Jetster

So dex is the star wars universe Quark? lol

I think the best part of this is how perfectly Dex's voice was emulated.

If your making comments of our gaming stories into videos, then let me tell you a story of mine: I first joined a minecraft server with random players who I had never met. I had ambitions to create my own empire, one that could conquer the entire server. however, I could never provide a reason for anyone to join my small hamlet kingdom. for the longest time. I was it's only resident. after a week of playing, I soon gave up on my humble hamlet town and went underground, choosing to simply mine minerals and sell them to players as a lonely hermit. despite my efforts, I could never make a success in that either. so I took off again, returning to the surface world I traveled across vast plains and desserts. looking for a purpose. that was when I stumbled across... an unfinished house. someone had merely set up the frames for what it was gonna be but I assumed it had since been long abandoned. I chose to set up a little camp in between it's pillars of dark oak and cobblestone, feeding off only of the pigs and wheat I grew around the site. I lived there all alone for quite some time, until an idea came into my head during a rainy night. I had been living in a dirt hole the entire time to evade the monsters and was never really confident in my resource gathering and management skills. I mainly played one solo creative mode before joining the server, however I wanted to give building a try. I wanted to do to one players build what i had wished others would do for mine back at my abandoned kingdom. so I gathered dark oak saplings, cobblestone, constructed furnaces and chests, then I began re-construction of the building. I dug out the ground and installed a plank floor, I put up the walls to help finally keep the mobs of the night out, I constructed the second story of the building, assembled the roof and then began planting a garden. the build was large and with many rooms, eventually a second player passed by me on a bright and sunny day. we talked on chat and I told him of my plans and the purpose of the build, he then offered to help me finish it. he was a more experienced designer in minecraft, he helped furnished the interior using minecraft design hacks like creating knight statues or a bath tub and other real world interpretations. after the 3 hour mark, we had completed the house. we planted around it trees, bushes, a farmland and an even more detailed garden with a hedge maze. I jokingly decided to add a little "fun" dungeon with a lady pig named "miss piggy" tied up in it for the one we planned to sell the house to. we sent the message on to chat to offer the house up to anyone willing to pay for it and one player teleported in, offering 13 diamonds for the build and a golden apple. me and my partner made the sale official by posting a picture of the buyer next to his freshly purchased house on the server's discord chat and after that, we went our separate ways. after feeling confident in my skills, I decided to go back and retry building the kingdom of my dreams. however, when I returned, I discovered that the kingdom I remembered once being small was now thriving with players. before leaving the kingdom, I left a little grave at the front entrance. my goodbye on it was "the kingdom that never could be". someone, noticing the grave, understood that finding the kingdom was a great dream of mine. so like how I took up action to fulfill someone else's planned build, they themselves took up action to fulfill my plans on building a nation, and they managed to do it. so much so that it wasn't mine anymore, I may have laid the groundwork but it was they who picked up the pieces, making it their own. so after I gave my thanks and blessings towards the newly established kingdom, I parted once again, but this time knowing that I have had made more of an impact on the server and the people who played on it then previously before. and that is my story.

Both of these videos remind me of a country roleplay I was apart of I was centered around Switzerland in a Post-Apocalypse, I was using diplomacy to get scattered regions to join me I managed to become the regional power of central Europe, containing the whole of Switzerland, northern Italy and, southern Germany. This went very well with a growing Italian player even joining along and buying pieces of land to reform Italy. This was until a Dutch player got mad for no reason, nobody else was complaining and he started crying and broke the rules of the roleplay by funding a North Italian revolution that he planted Then the German player who just now joined insisted that he had better technology and infrastructure despite my nation being bigger and older providing stability for Central Europe Because I was a nice person, I didn't call up any mods, I decided to play into this, this led to me getting kicked all the way back into just Switzerland and Liechtenstein. I of course didn't think this was fair but it was too late. Eventually the Italian player became a puppet and my people fiercely hated the Germans Still staying in character my nation militarized and shut itself off to most other nations but then the German player got pissy and told a mod to get me kicked because he didn't like that I have never played that game since Long story short: two players broke the rules of RP and then later cried to mods when I started fighting back while staying in the rules

Im happy to be alive to watch these beautiful videos. It reminds me of happy star wars times

I would love to play on a minecraft server that has established it's own society

Capitalism ☕️

I mean, if no one else was going to bother making potions and brews, can't really see fault with him

Well, if no one was providing competition, then the prices were the right ones as the players clearly were willing to pay that amount. A thing people need to remember about market economies is that it's all about choice. In that server, all it required was someone else to run their own brewery and sell the drinks at a lower price to deal with his higher prices. Why? Because there are no set prices for things, it will fluctuate with available money in the economy, competition, and resources. Supply and demand.

Dex, I'm going into battle against the Separatists and I require only your strongest potions [IN MINECRAFT]

Ah, the sweet smell of profit. 📈 💰 💵

Honestly good for Dexter, if nobody else wanted to make and sell positions then he deserves that bag 💰

In a world of Jedi and Sith, be a drinks mixer

Please make a loop of 0:41. Brilliant as always

Bro creates a pharmacy Megacorp

There's somerting about dexters ai voice that's just comforting. He sounds so friendly.

Potions in Minecraft are like meth irl. You either know how to make them or you don’t. Also don’t do meth you will regret it.

These videos are masterpieces, thank you for this creative genius!

they were really expensive.. except if you were a good friend

Lol, perfect

Wtf this is such high quality Jar Jar 😂😂😂😂😂

I was capitan on Meinkampf replay service

For anyone wondering, the song playing in the background is "Gymnopedie No.1" by Erik Satie

😎👍👏 This was purrfect 😻 btw.. Especially, the music. 🎶🎵🎶😹😹😸

Wow, he is literally me.

This video gave me an absolute banger of an idea to apply on the minecraft server I play

This made my day, especially since finals are going on rn.

Love the lip synch at the end

In reality there are many ways to define capitalism not all are bad and yet when greed hits you, it takes many forms. Skins for example an unbelievable stupid idea, where the company doesnt make money with the game content, thats free, but with something unrelated to the game. This sends companiea the message, that they can sell you literally nothing and you pay for it. Consumer shape the market, not them. Minecraft a quality game, survived everything though.

this kind of stuff just couldn't happen on my classmate's server, because there was always an anarchist menace on the loose

What a genius

Beautiful!

I feel like this is going to become the new vaporeon copypasta

Reminds me when I was banned for creating a coalition of neutral systems that, while still part of the Senatae for both CIS and Republic, we traded with the two sides using our own ships. In the early stages of the war, trade was slightly restricted. But as the war grew closer to the coalition and moves by both sides threatened various members’ neutrality…it was a trickle. Not only was I banned, but the Mandalorian capital was once again razed to the ground, as well as the system occupied by the Republic. Worse was the coalition members all were banned and occupied by the Republic.

I want one of those waitress droids on wheels 😁

I saw the original, and the comment. upon seeing this exact quote, it earned my respect and instant subcribe

i actually did this lol it was about 5 diamonds for the materials for a type of potion (increased price depending on potion and level) but i charged extra (10 diamonds) for me to brew it for them it worked very well and i never had to mine for anything ever again

I know no ones really gonna see this, but thats gotta be the best AI voice I've ever heard

I guess moral of story is to find out what is cheapest same thing is made at, and what is most expensive people are willing to pay for it, and set prices in the middle?

0:18 - Mona Minecraft Lisa❤❤❤❤

I just noticed that Dexter has a moustache.

I can't believe I'm only getting this recommended now😂

DUDE THIS IS AMAZING!!!

If you are good at what you do, no one will want to play with you

I kinda did that back in the day in modded Minecraft. All the other guys i played with were big into the tech mods and automation, but had zero knowledge with magic mods so i could trade them like high-end Thaumcraft tools and weapons with maxed enchantments and things of that nature

this is a GNH moment

Dooku animations here are princeless

This person clearly doesn’t understand supply and demand, if lots of people want the service and only one person is willing to provide it then it is naturally going to be expensive due to supply and demand. He wasn’t overcharging the true price is just very high.

I fucking KNEW I recognised Pong Krell from somewhere else before the Clone Wars series. I totally forgot Dexter existed. :O

Certified dax moment