Rick and Morty: Rick Collapses The Galactic Government 

Thief.

Nice

Fuck u

Nah

Good job, not buying trash.

I’m surprised more people didn’t catch this

So if we come across an evil Summer, she’ll trick people into nuking each other for real.

Clever foreshadow

Holy shit

same person same train of though, are they not ? ...

Mans got taste

had no money couldn't afford any better

Tbf if you look closely, it does look like a laser is being shot from it

@@Anonymous-yq6wy Just a normal glock then.

Yes because normal glocks turn you into jelly

Who Is goin to pay for that.

@@luckycobra3986 "I can answer that, for money."

Pretty sure everything is connected and not backed up so all accounts went to 0 without anyway to revert back to the previous amount (meaning they can't remember how much each person had so they would have to go person by person and trust that they won't lie about their account)

@@SuperFang1 You'll get paid after- wait, who's paying me to reason with you?

@@AlaskanGhost I can answer that... *For Likes...*

Eliert Xanthos This is the only reply you’ll get for this comment.

This is the second reply youll get

@@rammus804 Shall we keep counting?

@@olstar18 why not? Obviously i have nothing else to do hahah

I thought it was you nutsy. ...

lmao

President ⚔President (Friendly fire)

VIP President took the easy way out.

*permanently*

..the President of Afghanistan lmao

I mean it's cool but it doesn't make any sense economically. The value of a currency is whatever people believe it is. All the government would have to do is say "This currency is still worth 1 of itself" and people could still behave as such until they fixed the 1 character of code that Rick changed (and it doesn't make sense why that variable he changed would exist in the first place)

@@KodakKid33 It makes perfect sense. Stupidity is the foundation stone of economics. Confuse people and they're liable to panic their way into an economic collapse, even when they could just say what you said and move on.

It's a logical impossibility to change the value of something from one of itself to none of itself. I can't believe people are somehow trying to justify this as realistic. The whole point of this scene is to screw with Rick and Morty fans who like to talk about how realistic the show or try to justify everything being totally logical.

@@rtozier2011 bruh

@@tehcommenterofepic Yes, it's impossible. But what's not impossible is making people believe it's possible. That's all the economy is: belief. That's what Rick's taking advantage of.

Didn't he use cyanide?

J. Busch you could say it was his final solution

@@SSName he swallowed a cyanide pill then shot himself in the head just to be safe

J. Busch he took a cyanide pill and blew his brains out just to be safe

poppyface whoa. We both said almost the exact same thing. Cool

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Me too.

@@joethomas8464 tf2 lol

LASER GLOCK

you're not too far off

The Weimar republic is Almost proud of you

That is nonsense, because you can print all the money that do you want but it still worth 0 of itself

@@Degoxxfull that's the joke, printing money leads to inflation

​@@killian9314 I doubt that He was being sarcastic

BRRRRRRRR

knowing him he's probably done that already

@@vanguardplays3418 Several times over, probably...

Asswhole barely ever need a reason

@@vanguardplays3418 Was going to say. He probably does it for sport.

Well he actually can't universe hop too much. He said so in "Rick potion No. 9"

*galaxy

once I heard this from the man named Kane :D

*toiletpaper

Give me your jacket!!!

And now Wrangler is making Death Stars

That’s not correct you can clearly see in that frame that the bullet went out the other side along side a stream of liquid

And how calmly he killed himself

@@charlottewalnut3118 and AFTER that the exoskeleton explodes 😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣

that's sort of how it works with humans too

*take the gun and use it*

Does it cover medical and life insurance?

@@nicolasachille4371 I can answer that… for money.

Is my insurance covering these sessions?

AND YET YOU STILL PAY

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"Gimme your jacket!" "Gimme those pants!"

Intergalactic Jared Kushner can answer that question ...for money

Employe of the month lady's and gentlemen

"For extra *FOOD* "

It looks more like a S&W M&P 9MM to me.

john titor Square slide, squared off trigger guard, vertical slide serrations, bottom of pistol grip has that fat part like a Glock, what features of an M&P do you see?

To quote another comment in this video, to him its an alien gun, a collectible like Zulu spears

mortaché de muerte But if it were a regular Glock a bullet would’ve gone through his head not a plasma bolt.

@@JohnW-yv6yp of course its modified, just like how modern reenacters use smokeless powder in their muskets :p

Perfect clip to link to geniuses making the argument that police need to "wait the extra second to ensure it is a gun."

Not that at all stupid fuck. Talk about making something out of nothing.

@@LeiRaion Yes, a clip from a cartoon makes the perfect argument, of course.

@@Federico-mj3si omg what? An analogy isn't perfect in a literal sense?? Dear lord get the news on the phone! Stop the presses!!! This is groundbreaking news and people need to know about this immediately!

@@LeiRaion Dude, it's not a good argument, it's a fucking clip from a show! It means nothing irl.

The Generalissimo who needs that when you have the subjective theory of value

@@alphamega8660 like pants.

Gavin Wheeldon what? lmfao

@@alphamega8660 as in pants being the subjective new item of measuring value haha

@Quest Tzecai The topic here is about currency, labor is irrelevant here.

ShadowDurza From what I know of behavioral economics, the value only stops existing if people don’t believe the currency will be valued. So as long as any sufficiently large group of people treat it as valid, then the scrap of paper with a 1 is valued at 1. For Rick’s plan to work, the Galactic gvt must be centralized to an insane degree and somehow communicate the currency value with no info gaps. Really cool idea. Fortunately the current economic system is too decentralized so even if the entire US got Thanos’d, the dollar would still have some value. Not what it is now, but some. Goes to show as complicated as global systems are, they’re complicated for a reason. Look at all the worries EU nations have had sharing a currency with a fluctuating value based on the actions of peers. Neither system is perfect, but by George, humans make it work. Can’t say the same for these bugs.

@@conorgleeson2453 maybe that's why Rick used this plan. It never would have worked on a human government but these guys ain't human are they?

@@robbieking4070 Yes, i agree. But the obvious message is a (light and hilarious) critique to how our stability is dependent on the value of a currency, which has no value in itself. A situation like this (but without "intelligent?" space insects) can happen even in our world, maybe due to hyperinflation or other reasons.

@@apc9714 Very true and kinda scary.

Conor Gleeson I’m not saying your wrong because I don’t know a lot about currency and economics but if I think if the U.S government were to disappear the value of the dollar would be worthless I thought the value currency was only worth the economics of the government. But like I said I’m not sure so feel free to school me

One season later destroying the Citadel and crushing the only superpower in the Multiverse

Nah,this would work on earth.Imagine money becoming worthless in a second.

@@oni-linkle4880 Not exactly, yes at first, but our society would either create a new currency, or just revert back to trading goods for other goods. Or like many post apocalypse media has shown, trade what has a surplus of useable value. (Canned food, bullets, medic, etc.)

@Nekid Snek9000 Until you and your followers were all killed or imprisoned by decent people within the first 10 seconds. Then the smart people will inherit the earth.

Well, he is the smartest mammal in the galaxy.

@@rtozier2011 Decent people stop being decent as soon as things go to hell.

There is literally no difference

The Hungarian one has toppled many government economies lol

Miert kaptal ennyi like ot? Vmikor tali?

@@flyde6521 What are you talking about it's in Hungarian /s

Imagine watching Rick and Morty dubbed, Jesus .... You dub everything, then you deserve to not know other languages, bosmeg

Wouldn't that solution fall apart when the stock exchange opens? Even with a singular currency it would be tracked by traders and in a galaxy the exchange should be active 24/7 which means the investors and such would know the truth before even the governement on account of how quickly they need to react to changes in the economy. It would be like the Wall Street crash of 1929 investors killing themselves only much worse, the news would report it until they realised they were not being paid the public would know whats up initially but then be in the dark and chaos assumes.

I'm not sure that would work, you know there's a reason why there's a variable value of the currency depending on the imports and exports to other galaxies, so, if the currency dropped to zero the other galaxy literly could buy everything in this and they will die of hunger unless they change their economy to be solely depending on the galaxy itself and that will result to a galactic war somewhen in the future.

A man believes in money because his neighbour does and the neighbour Bellevue in money because the man does.

@@dakshbadal7522 Change that to time.

@@zytolen5356 Tell me time is subjective after you die from old age.

man I remember that day that was nuts.

@@SimplyNon_sense Im lost here bois, what happened

@@vault6242 The price of US crude oil crashed so hard it went negative. Meaning they would pay YOU to store crude oil just so the ships could leave port. My mind was being blown by the minute watching crude prices fall.

Yeah the oil price drop nearly destroyed the balance sheet of every petrostate(Except strangely russia and saudi arabia)

I think Rick just hacked it, but yes, it is stupid

Also make sure that every guard who works in the deepest depths of the prison where the most ruthless criminals are, has a badge that can get them unquestioned access to every door and gate between that most secure position and complete freedom.

like what the president bug did?

Because the FED can literally just change the value of money by accessing an excel spreadsheet and changing a specific cell to ‘0.’ Grow up

I uh... not sure if this is as simple as changing the value of a currency to a zero. Because... well... its more complicated than that. So much so that they made an entire subject to be learned called economics. Mind blowing right?

Creating new money by selling valueless (as in, not profitable for anyone that buys it) debt of that same money and filling the "bag" of all the economic money with that valueless money, making real hard worked money in that bag untraceable and a minority, is how economies and most specifically the fed and eu are changing the number from 1 to 0. This is metaphorically already happening people and it's not going to look pretty. Note: the bag is just a metaphor to reference where the money goes, the economy

Bro they’re literally almost the same people ofc they’d have the same ideas or something like that

Rick and Morty is really, really good.

Leche de caballo Usually it’s “BUILD A RESISTANCE! TAKE IT BY FORCE! Etc” But in actuality, the best/most successful revolutions happen from inside the government. Usually involving other more strategical assets like politicians, soldiers, generals, bankers, Anything that involves the economy and military, the whole wazoo.

Cough cough Mr Robot

TrainerDarkrai Alright wise guy, name at least 3 other shows that have people topple an empire by screwing their economy?

@@couragew6260 That's interesting, as a sci-fi/fantasy writer I feel like that could make for some really interesting stories.

*cyborg..

@@mho... Also driven. Even without all the implants, Rick is a beast. Pickle Rick. (mic drop)

As we found out later from Tanya, all the bug leaders ended up dead and the new leaders are half her age. Rick did a rather efficient job of throwing a spanner in the gear box. It was actually quite zen and kung fu what he did. Minimal effort for maximum effect. It was possibly the least violent thing he did all season, that led to the deaths of millions.

No, with how stupid the bugs are there were definitely loads of dead civilians. They should have noticed someone changed the number, and quickly and easily changed it back. Ricks plan only works cause no one followed reasonable logic.

For the love of god, watch something other than Naruto.

It's genbuttsu, but yes. You have learned much.

The only way he could be more efficient would have been by the Power of Doing Nothing. You'd be surprised how effective that can be.

But isn't an example of capitalism at it's core? Ergo: isn't this a deconstruction of what happens when AAAapitalism collapses in on itself?

@@brano13177 when has capitalism collapsed on itself?

@@cugeltheclever3766 When economies crash among other systems collapses happen: like the south sea bubble, the great depression and the recession Also note the microcosm of the AAA game industry

@@brano13177 just because a country has an economic crash that doesn't mean capitalism has collapses on itself, periodic economic depresions are normal and have been ocurring since the dawn of civilazation.

@@cugeltheclever3766 an economic crash is by definition a collapse... not to mention capitalism is a system based off of mercantilism, plutocratic exploitation, of people's, resources, communities, societies, ect. And falsehood on the claims that "it's normal since the dawn of civilization" because that asserts, falsely, that capitalism as an economic doctrine had always existed in human history; when in reality it hasn't and never had until much recently in human history. What humanity used before was the barter system and several other systems and forms of mercantilism before capitalism came to be. Lastly; for profit prisons are just Capitalist gulags.

I never noticed

He's also Crocubot, Abradolf Lincler, The Brain from Pinky and the Brain, Inspector Gadget, Doctor Doom, etc.

Nah, they released shorts showing that the Galactic Federation’s civilization basically collapsed with this. They even have a video showing how these bug things can cook their young to survive the ongoing collapse.

this is why you should use the gold standard as backup for your curency

@@doppelhelixes gold standard is also a fictional value in itself. Nixon proved it by removing the gold standard for US dollar which lead to US currency being based in other type of value which where based on US dollar.

@@andmos1001 And how exactly that has worked out so far? You saw the crash of 09 and how bad that was this is why more invested towards precious metals mainly silver

@@djmars1983 The gold standard would not work.

@@djmars1983 Plenty of economic crashes (including the big one) took place back when there was a gold standard.

Boooo this is less funny

Um. Dollar's a free-floating currency too...

​@@JoshSweetvale That's why the U.S. military doesn't have a pay attached to their contract... it has a "pay grade" of which you'll entered into the armed services as but no actual guarantee of pay. So thus in a catastrophic emergency and economic collapse military members would still serve even if they aren't immediately getting paid.

@@JoshSweetvale The dollar also doesn't have a button that makes it worth nothing.

@@TheFlyingZulu If _they think_ they won't get a payment, you can be sure they *absolutely won't* risk their lives, or even move a finger for anybody or any "cause".

@@Braxton1981 Nah, they would. Not all, but a lot still would. America has this weird soldier mentality where many, despite complaining often and loudly, would fight for what they perceive is right by the ideals of its country. That includes fucking over its own government if it's perceived to be anti-democratic.

Ryan Jackson Apple is too scared of public response to make an actual gun emoji.

Since that's there only currency value similar to stock marketing, he prob got rid of it. So that meant they cant buy it back because they're broke in general.

1:01 But you're right. Actually they could. ...For money. But now 1 unit of the currency is worth 0. Changing its worth back to the worth of 1 unit gives 0. But really you'd like to watch Mr. Robot series.

Essentially, the idea is that since the closest access to it is a warzone, and any other access would require effort, their ingrained mindset of value extraction means they refuse to work without being paid, meaning that if their wages are currently nothing, none of them are willing to put in the work to fix the problem. Its an indictment of the current atmosphere of the government putting all its emphasis on transactions rather than other forms of value, and of wage slavery in general creating a fundamentally fragile society. No, I do not have a high IQ, thank you for asking, its average

@@curvingfyre6810 ohh that makes senses.

And who's going to pay them to do that?

He is a bit more experienced with this kind of thing.

Stargate Atlantis did that during its final season. It was called the Attero Device. A galaxy-wide FTL jammer. Could be tuned to different types of FTL, and destroyed any ship that turned on their drive. Unfortunately it overcharged the eponymous Stargates, which started exploding too. Too bad so sad.

Luckily, our empire uses a real currency and therefore is immune to any sort of collapse

@@Bogdanko93 It's still just pieces of paper though; they only have value because we say they do.

@@benjaminklaassen4722 that was sarcasm

@@Bogdanko93 Yeah, my radar for that when it comes to text is basically nonexistent.

I'd be amazed if there wasn't a Morty hiding behind that shelf.

Its a machine

Great Morties think alike

OMG U ARE SO HILARIOUS AND ORIGINAL the hold my beer but its 0 instead... OMG

doesn't work in space, when there are compleate asteroid bellts made out of this stuff. They are easyer to harvest than planets and there are unbelivable much of them in every solarsystem

@@doppelhelixes gold's still rare, once we're out there there will also be many more hands to hold as well. Gold's made via collision of neutron stars. I dig it on every level. Silvers badass too. Those new electric bandages are a godsend.