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It's pretty insane that the Techno Union was basically building every ship and weapon used by both sides of the Clone Wars.

I had never realized the massive monopoly of the Techno Union

6:08 The blockade of Naboo WAS legal. Admittedly pretty dystopian that a corporation can legally block trade and travel with a sovereign planet, but several characters on both sides admit, that the blockade itself doesn't violate any laws. What was illegal, was landing troops on the planet surface ie invading it.

Wasn't one of point of the Clone wars to have the monopolies side against the Republic so they could be nationalised at the end of the war? Like half the point was to move to a planned economy so no one could challenge the Empire. I know disney kind of missed that whole point in their movies/shows (other than Andor) Was clearly what Lucas was going for though.

The truly eternal orders of the galaxy are those loyal not to an emperor, or a supernatural force, But investors

I can’t be the only one who would like an Andor-styled show about the corporate-industrial side of the SW universe, showing a lot of these kind of big events we care so much about from the side of the people in the highest towers. Corporations so large they become almost like myths, like gods

Just imagine the mind boggling amount of credits that each corporation possessed. Simply staggering

The Banking Clan were however amazing for keeping inflation at _zero percent._ The value of a credit has held steady for over a thousand years - just look at the sticker price of ships over that time scale as an example.

I keep telling people being in the starwars universe would suck because there’s a good chance you’re gonna either get conscripted, enslaved or both by huge corporations

You know one great example that could've shown just how far and wide corporations can go and how powerful they can get is the Tagge Corporation, or TaggeCo. They are in literally every conceivable industry where you can make credits. There's a slice of the galaxy called Tagge Space and they own entire star systems. It's wild.

Number One Star Wars Monopoly: The Jawa Juice Cartel. 🤣

That Thumbnail is fantastic! It really makes Nute Gunray, Wat Tambor and San Hill seem both menacing and cool.

Love these vid types you and your team have grown this channel into one of if not the most informative starwars chanels out there

The R6 astromech does have one key advantage over the R2: The R6 has the ability to hold 12 set of hyperspace coordinates over the R2's 10.

in the guide to warfare, there's a good section on the role of these corporations in the history of galaxies war

You know, Alan, what I find weird is when a huge company does something so stupid they kill its own market. Like what Unity did. (I don't know if you followed this story.)

Your videos are always on point. Appreciate your realism and reach of the lore

These types of videos show just how great this channel and what sets it apart from anything else on the platform. Keep up the amazing content!

Allen you have the most smoothing voice on the internet. You bring down my anxiety so much

One idea for a follow up vid to this might be looking at the Corporate Sector and the Corporate Sector Authority. There's some pretty interesting stuff there, since it was basically an entire galactic government made up solely of corporations and run like a business.

Alan you do know that the federal reserve doesn’t print currency, the Treasury department does. They do handle our monetary policy mostly including interest rates for our banking system. That why Secret Service was originally a treasury department agency as they police counterfeit currency. Just an FYI.

Did we ever find out what happened to these areas of commerce after the Empire fell? Like who’s building ships during Ahsoka?

The Sith also take over media companies. C'mon, Rupert is Palpatine in disguise...

The Corporations and Monopolies are allowed to run as long as they "kickback" to Palpatine, otherwise a couple of Star Destroyers are parked outside of the center of operations. Even Jabba had to deal with Vader. " It would be unfortunate if I had to leave a garrison here."---Vader to Lando in ESB.

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In the 50's, boeing built there manufacturing assembly and repair plant in Washington. Think it was somewhere around the 80's or 90's they transferred headquarters to DC to be closer and try to get more contracts. And if you had a droid like R2, wouldn't you try to give him the best parts to complete any task? All we've really seen is him getting booster upgrades and a couple new casings. Wouldn't you want him to hook up to the manufacturers mainframe and essentially design himself the best body with all the tools?

Alan, I hate ads and usually avoid them, but I actually watched your imbedded ad this time. Realistically, I won't be able to afford one of those cool lightsabers, but I like the idea of ground news. We really need it, these days. Once again, standing up for humans.

The canadian AVRO corporation was a vertical stacking. If they needed something for an aircraft... a new alloy? they bought a foundry and made it themselves. Engines? made it themselves... everything even the computers were supposed to be made in house.

I want to see a Lando corporation.

Hypothetical good monopolies would essentially be a for profit replication of national/international governmental policies.

It's 'Industrial Automaton'!

I think that the Techno Union also have a Medical compagny... i don't know if this is true. In the game Galaxy of Heroes, Wat Tambor have 3 object that he can put on his allies : something from BlasTech, something from Baktoid and something from Chiewab. The Techno Union owns BlasTech and Baktoid, so i suppose that they own Chiewab also. I know that i did this search earlier this year and i found something (i don't remember if Chiewab was owned by the Techno Union). I'm not saying that they own this Compagny for sure, i'm just saying that maybe they own this.

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5:08 Hold up. Astromechs may be the navi computer for some fighters, but not all. The A-wing is incredibly small, and has a dedicated navi without an astromech, and yes I know it only has preprogrammed sets of jumps as per lore but that's not really ever explicitly made a point. And then there's Din's N-1 when he didn't have a droid socket, he seemed to be doing just fine.

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That picture of a bunch of astromechs and BB8…it shows you how out of place he is (and the sequels).

Great and informative video. Good perspective. Thank you.

Alan, what do you think will happened if these megacorporations go to wars against each other like how the North West Company went to war against the Hudson Bay's Company in a war called the Pemmican War? What will the Republic do? Will they do nothing and let them solve this problem on their own due to the factionalism and corruption within the Republic Senate or will they allowed the Jedi to intervene?

Only OGs know about the name change

I have had terminal cancer( stage 4 Germ Cell), since late 2021. Your pictorial format has brightened every day sir.

the opening thirty seconds of this are why i love this channel

What's going on in that apartment behind you?!

Because of the incredible size of the largest corporations, small businesses can exist by either being too small to pose as an economic danger to the larger or small firms conduct their business in the gray portion of the legal system. The Hutt Syndicate is large enough and illegal enough to be a problem; however, the proper application of bribes creates a mutually profitable arrangement for the corporations to look the other way.

A correction Allen about what you said about Tesla. They are not vertically integrated as you said. I work for an automotive parts manufacture, and one of our costumers is Tesla. They are structured in the same way all other car makes are even contracting out a part of their assembly process.

Great Video!

Please provide a link to the video about the political ambitions of the Federation of No Pants. Thank you.

Can I just say all these new videos are making my life better

You really need to make a second channel for this sort of stuff. Call it Generation Techonomics.

Damn That news thing from the sponser actually sounds really cool and interesting

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"Corporation: An ingenious device for obtaining profit without individual responsibility." -- Ambrose Bierce

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The Trade Federation was created to combat trade monopolies but became one. So the Trade Federation needed a trade Federation to keep the Trade Federation from becoming a trade monopoly. Just like governments everything becomes corrupt eventually and needs recreated.

The greatest Fiction lets us look at real world problems, liberated from our preconceptions of the world around us.

i thought at first that he said "one of the last sexy parts of economics is logistics", and i agreed.

This is my new Favorite Star Wars channel.

good job on 800K subs

Alan well done analysis

love you man

I can't help it. I keep hearing that techno beat music whenever I see Wat Tambor, or hear anything TECHNO Union related *baTHUM* *baTHUM* *baTHUM* *baTHUM*

One thing I've never understood is how can the trade federation control all galactic trade if there are so many smugglers? Plus getting a ship is something any middle class person can do it seems, so the barrier to entry is much lower than say, starting your own oil or car company. I have no idea how it would actually exist. Also in the master and apprentice novel obi wan and qui gon have to face a massive shipping company that isn't the trade federation, and that book seems to dispute what exactly the trade federation is. But og question: how did the trade federation monopolize trade if there was so much natural competition such as smugglers and independent contractors?

Awhile ago, you did a video about how much a credit could be worth in usd. Is there a way you can find out the official value of each different credit chip or other currencies? Such as the amount of a single puck of Calamari Flan in credits, the worth of a each clone wars Republic credit chips, the Empire’s credit chips, the New Republic, etc. Did the First Order use credits? Such and so forth.

Wait a minute here... An astromech droid: Something half the size of your average sentient, that can perform the calculations necessary for hyperspace jumps, do repairs on the ship while in transit, plus a whole host of other functions (many of which must have nothing at all to do with the operation of a starship, otherwise what use would moisture farmers on Tattooine have for one?) in addition to motivators, ocular/auditory sensors, and other things necessary for the droid to move through and interact with the world around it, but a navigation and repair module small enough can't just be installed in the ship itself instead of needing the droid? No, any navicomputer small enough to fit in an astromech droid can fit into a ship too. The makers of the C, R, and BB series either are a subsidiary of, or are in some way partnered with the corporations that run the shipyards. Or maybe they've got some dirt on the CEOs of these companies or something. The whole, "We can't build half an astromech droid inside our ships as part of the construction," thing is a scam to sell astromech droids. What, is someone going to tell me that the galaxy at large, which, more or less, enslaves the entire droid population, suddenly thinks it's immoral or unethical to put a droid in a ship where it can't move autonomously or something? They're bought and sold like any other appliance, and are otherwise treated no differently than we might treat our cars. We'll take care of and maintain it, because it's a hefty investment, but we're not concerned with its rights. I mean, effectively, what would be the difference between welding an astromech droid into its slot in the ship, and just removing the shell and the parts that let it move around from the droid and installing the necessary parts directly as part of the craft? Even at a glance, the idea that "certain ships _must_ have an astromech droid," makes no sense.

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Really interesting vid

So can some teacher use this for there high school Economics class? 🤔 Just saying! Thanks Alan great job.👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼🏆

Star Wars Corporations are privatized sector sized governments. Usually it’s loose unitary governments with executives and their proxies in all the seats. But here the corporations have a tiny civilian government body that just furthers their utilitarianism as the entire state is dedicated to one industrial purpose or another.

KOTOR first got me interested in the economic side of the sage. Czerka

Monopolies also allow lazy writing. Much like every planet in star wars only had one city, big giant corporations simplify the world building

It’s refreshing that a content creator is politically literate and understands that discussions around real world implications can be healthy.

IIRC Astromechs can't actually compute hyperspace jumps. You still need a navicomp for that. They can however hold the data for a limited amount of pre calculated jumps.

4:08 "🎵come on and sing! Six Kitty companies run everything...🎶"

That was Darth Plagueis in the thumbnail

That's politics for you. They're not to be trusted.

If the banking clan is "intergalactic " do they have a branch on Peridia?

I’d love if you did a Channel on just stocks

7:25 Fun fact: "technical" was a term coined during the Chad-Libyan war, nicknamed the "Toyota War", because the Toyota Hilux was part of the "technical support" (as opposed to "military support") the US provided Chad. Follow up fun fact: light pickup trucks, or light utility vehicles are no longer produced because the emissions standards (set by the Federal DOT) for that class of vehicle is nearly impossible to meet, so all manufactures switched to sport utility vehicles (which have much more lax emissions standards)

Hey GT I love your channel and question you ever think Hugo Demask and Young Palpatine would have ever started a business together that was legal with equal partnership if so what kind of business

@GenerationTech That background pixelated boba/yoda/neon whatever that is is ridiculously distracting. I watched that thing trying to figure what it is.. You became background noise in your own video.

7:27 is this a Toyota hilux reference 😂😂😂

The corporate sector authority is still a thing on almost all of the maps and worth a mention.... 🧐

I am currently a member of the Federation of no pants. I'm part of the inner circle - the free danglers.

Oh no, R2 and Choper in one room, goodbye fabric of universe...

I did not expect him to mention furries in a star wars video

I never thought of where the Jedi got their money from

I was sort of hoping you'd go into the scale of these business entities. The Republic has over a million systems represented. It was trivial for businesses to own entire planets, often stripping them of resources or operating massive automated farms. Factory worlds massive shipyards are all possible and all capable of either imrpvoing lives or harming lives. Monopolies can function in an economy, but need extensive, an do mean extensive regulation to do so. Look at local power delivery companies in the US : they're granted legal geographically limit monopolies, because operating parallel power distribution systems is simply not doable. As such they're strictly regulated by theor respect states and can only charge so much for maintenance. In some jurisdictions things like electrical coops have sole exclusive right for both infrastructure and power supply. In these cases the total price is completely regulation to cover their operating costs. I will also point out for massive monopolies like the astromechs, there would inevitably exists a secondary market of used droids, which would limit the power of the primary manufacturer. Much like C3PO or T3M4 before it, people can repair and resell used droids and achieve quite reliable models. So much so, it's entirely possible for Rebel and non affiliated groups to gain access to them regardless of the interests of the primary manufacturer. Take Toyota for example. ISIS used their Hilux and Tacoma platforms to mount black market machine guns and other weapons systems for a fast light strike force against poorly prepared local security forces. There's a famous example of a plumbers' business logos from the US appearing on one of the trucks in Iraq due to shady resell markets. The plumber sold his old truck, and it was eventually bought and sold overseas. Given how much the Droid and tech market has stagnated for centuries if not millenia, tertiary markets could supply a lot of technology that would stay more or less competitive over centuries. Honestly I would think a Droid like T3 is capable of surviving if Huyang is able to live 25,000 years. (I still expect him to be a crystalline entity driving a mech suit based on a contemporary chassis at the time. Basically a more advanced and larger kyber crystal)

Navigation is too big for a starfighter so we fit one on a astromech instead.....

Why isn’t Amazon on this video?

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9:42 That's why I like Toyota stuffs, especially their pickup trucks (Hilux, Land Cruiser & Tacoma) be modified to technicals. XD

Three of the four were realistically and practically speaking governments in their own right. They did have representation in the Galactic Republic after all. Which does imply that the Republic recognized them governmental organizations. As for the first, if you really think they don't have lobbiests close to the Republic Senate building then you're incredibly naive. Reminder the Galactic Republic by the time of the Clone Wars was known for being incredibly currupt. It wouldn't surprise me if the Republic senators of Star Wars assisted in regulatory capture just as much as happens in real life. If not, I'd argue, far more then real life.

Oh no, I’m not brave enough for politics

All monopolies are evil.

My eyes hurt

So crazy that Atlas Corp from COD: Advanced Warfare looks like a small PMC...

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Man, they really were pulling many $$$$.

Heey! Toyota still makes the Hi-lux and the Tundra! Plenty of space for automatic weapons!