How to be a Pirate Quartermaster. 📈 💎 📈
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Quartermaster: We need to properly plan and attack so as to not lose income Captain: *BRANDING*
Marketers Vs Financier
s t o n k s
Hey, the captain understands fighting is the opposite of what you want if you want money.
MY BRAND ! ! !
BOOP
Kids : Let’s play pirates One Kid : I’ll be the Captain Young Grey: I’ll be the Quartermaster
Young Grey: * Whips out Excel spreadsheets *
@Boris I'm carpenter! My multi-purpose saw is very multi-purpose!
Guess Imma be a gunner or a cook.
Docrof Reborn gunner? I didn’t hear that in the vid
I like this comment section became a pirate crew
Ah yes, the 8 traits : strength, cruelty, aggression, loyalty, intellect, saw skills, seasickness and YAARRR
That is what you get asked about, when you apply for a job.
@Józef Dubois "Judging by your appearance, you seem very YARR"
@@jozefdubois1535 Imagine going to an interview with one of those graphs lol
“Okay, we’ve analyzed your skills for the job as a surgeon and we have decided to not hire you as while yours smarts are very high, your YAAARRRR is not high enough for you to be hired. Have a nice day, dear YAR HAR FIDDLE DEE DEE”
YAAARRRR!! tis be a trait most desirable
Love your videos man!
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The captain is Grey with coffee, and the quartermaster is Grey without it.
seems about right to me
Or the other way round, only with beer or something similar.
;O;
Grey without coffee is No bueno
Yep
“I’d like to talk to that guy” “I’d like to talk to the captain” Oh god! It’s an infinite loop!
feels like player going around bugging npcs
Pretty soon, Grey will have a video on the KZheadr business model, explaining this as a way of maximizing viewer time and profit in the same cold-hearted accountant tone.
Yep
@@MatthewChenIsAwesome That'd be amusing. I know others have done it, I just enjoy watching each "you" in KZhead do their thing. People are fascinating.
so does he join or not!?!?!?!?!?
When a teacher talks in dull monotone it is hard to focus and stay awake. Somehow when Grey does it I am paying attention to every word.
Rythm. The rythm is careful made.
@@Mat860000 and the topic
Because he's talking as a calm, reserved character, not as a guy who's bored. You're more invested here because the monotone indicates careful thought instead of pained repetition, and your brain likes one a lot more than the other (is my guess based off media classes)
He's not talking in a dull monotone. He's just speaking clearly. These are not the same.
Well, grey has time to script the video and can retake the audio over and over again until it's perfect. Teachers on the otherhand had to impovise on the spot, one chance to talk about a certain topic, for a limited amount of time about a topic that is not very fun at it's nature. Dont blame teachers for all of your life's problem, they're just working for their families.
I love the contrast of these characters, with the Captain being emotional, flashy and upbeat even when talking about torturing people to death while their crewmates watch, and clearly a man in love with his job, while the Quartermaster is monotone, matter-of-fact, and seems to have no love for the job, denying that he ever had a choice in becoming a pirate and referring to acts of torture as "punishment for contract violations". The "just-following-orders" bad guy.
Right but at 5:36 when the quartermaster talks about money he smiles and his eyes go wide (only time in the video) which makes me think he actually is there by choice because he loves seeing money. While the captain is a people-person, the quartermaster is a more reserved, pensive person. But at the end of the day they’re both pirates.
@@Taib-Atte Indeed. The Quartermaster may have convinced himself he had no choice in becoming a pirate, but, really, it's just an excuse.
I think he isn't saying that he has had no choice in a bad way; he is saying he ALSO has the personality type that doesn't want to work for the empire. Him working for greedy monarchs and officers wouldn't fit his priorities either, so he's as natural a fit for the pirating life as the other social misfit pirates. His personality happens to be organized, logical, and monotone, but doesn't mean he doesn't fit the lifestyle! Especially with how much he likes the profit!
@@Nancy-jc4bv He just works better as a pirate than an officer is that it?
I personally love that bad guy type, it’s nothing personal, it’s just how things are
"i'd like to hear from the surgeon"
I kinda want a small side from the EMPIRE.
"We're out of whiskey, so you're gonna want to bite down on something, this is gonna hurt like hell."
I want the normal pirates perspective
Dr. Carpenter
"I'd like to hear from the monarch"
“I’d like to speak with The Empire.”
We plunder the New World, your montly wage will barely feed you and the captain and the empire take all the profit. Any questions?
@@moosesandmeese969 *many* actually. How do I become Captain?
@@mrivera6975 Be born into the right sort of family with landowners and/or connections to nobility, go to the right schools and colleges, make friends with wealthy investors or aristocrats. If you're just john doe off the street, no chance.
M Rivera sadly, in the day and age we live(d) in, its incredibly hard for you (a commoner) to be promoted in any way that matters. Most captains are nobles and aristocrats, government officials and sons of captains. Nepotism is a royal affair and as such his majesty’s ships...are run by his majesty’s friends. Boo boo for you, his majesty is not your friend
Piracy it is!
You should make a "surgeon" version where he talks about the diseases, spoilt food, lack of hygiene and premature death that await most pirates.
To be fair, those factors would apply to most imperial ships as well
Also, Surgeon was most likely kidnapped and forced to operate under threat of death
No one: Quartermaster: Casually breaks out a personality matrix and bespeaks of science centuriess ahead of him
Legend has it he's still making the captain and the quartermaster retell their sides over and over and over again.
Woah so true
Not that the Captain would mind, he gets to talk about *BRANDING* a whole lot.
Plot Twist: He is Hired By The Empire To Stall Time So They can be arrested
Just checked. Still true.
The captain and quartermaster have been trapped in an infinite time loop
This is Grey as a pirate. "Ship sighted, captain! Do we attack?" "Hang on, let me consult my Excel spreadsheet..."
CGP Grey didn't choose the pirate life, the pirate life chose him.
@@Sorcerers_Apprentice CGP Grey: Actually Excel chose for me, always obey the spreadsheets.
"Excel? But we have no computers!"
That's got to be the best pirate I've ever seen. So it would seem.
Gray wouldn’t be the captain, he would be the quartermaster.
CGP Grey: Releases dozens of well-researched, highly informative videos covering a broad and diverse array of subjects, in an interesting format. Also CGP Grey: Lol...booty.
**Smirks** Quartermaster: Treasure
1k likes and 1, now 2 replies? woah.
@@jaxsonhedberg7515 it's a hidden gem, having only 3 replies that much likes
Yes
Why else would you spend so much effort and time on something if it weren't to tell a booty joke?
6:22 “I became a pirate as the gold in this grail chose its form” is BEAUTIFUL
The Captain waxes poetic, the Quartermaster waxes philosophical. The swabbey waxes the deck.
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@@justyourfriendlyneighborho903 do ruin
the powdermonkey waxes cANNONS
Pirates are so overdramatized in books and movies, yet their real story is just as interesting!
There isn’t exactly a lot of historians who would waste time trying to do an anthropological study on theives that just happen to known how to sail. It would be like finding a serious study on black crime gangs instead of just lie the low effort and easy access rap music to fans we’d all questions.
@ Popular culture would seem to indicate otherwise. I'm sure a lot of people are interested in the inner machinations and workings of crime gangs.
If not more so! I would much rather watch a movie with these pirates instead of Pirates of the Carribean.
When this comment has 2000 likes, remember I was the 12th
It’s only been 16 minutes and you have almost 300 likes like wtf man show me your ways
"If there is no surgeon, the carpenter will be surgeon." Me: omg "Shocking I know, such flat and equal compensation..." THAT'S NOT THE SHOCKING PART
I guess if you can saw through wood, you can saw through flesh and bone
Or the cook. Filleting a fish, amputation. What's the difference really?
Well, leaving at the time, it was shocking. Imagine entering in a company and the HR start by "the CEO earn 600K a year. The HRD 450K, the common employee 300K".
@@Momolulu1994 It's a jarringly _fair_ level of compensation that makes confusing levels of sense, given that we're talking about high seas pillagers and rapists. But it makes sense. Their business worked - it had to.
frankly speaking with the state of the medical field at the time your odds of survival might go up with the carpenter.
I think it’s interesting that both the Captain and the Quartermaster are very much romanticizing the pirate lifestyle. Whereas the Captain is giving the “Yo ho ho” speech, the Quartermaster gives a look at the practical day-to-day management of freedom aboard a pirate ship. Keep in mind that both are simply recruiting the listener. It’s interesting how the Captain and Quartermaster give different images of freedom
the captain: branding the quatermaster: accounting
The crew: argh-ness
Crue: Yaarrrrrrrrrrrr!
The Empire: Whiteness.
A certain (cosplayer?) Private captain: AHOYYYYYYY!!
The carpenter: surgeoning
I love how the quartermaster has a completely different voice than the pirate. CGP Grey is a voice actor confirmed
They're both pirates.
How many voices can he do? Lol
😂😂😂
The quartermaster is what I assume to be Grey's impersonation of an accountant
He sounds so dead, it’s hilarious
Somehow he makes being a pirate sound better than a lot of modern day jobs
The Captain and Quartermaster both went to Business School together. Captain ended up doing Marketing, Quartermaster did Accounting&Finance
First rule: WE MUST CHOOE A VOTING SYSTEM
lol
Grey: *bursts though the wall* did someone say VOTING SYSTEM
Who’s OK with Burger Barn?
One vote per person, and the person with the most votes wins. Simple, Fair, Logical. Right?
Single Transferable Vote is the only true voting system! And almost nobody uses it ...
"Wow, what great guys you pirates are! Such comradery!" Quarter Master: ** breaths in **
Yar Boii!
i mean, what he says next makes sense. I'm not gonna go arround advocating for muh cooperation because of my heart, but because economics and logic say that its the best thing to do.
Camaraderie
As The Old Saying Goes "The Job Of Being The One Who Manages The Rest Is Harder Than The Ones Being Managed".
Hello There da comrade
The captain is so cute "ask me about branding" WITH HIS BIG SMILE AWWW
Imagine if after rewatching this after like 20 times, he randomly says “yeah, ok” instead of “i’d like to speak with the captain” in a loop.
Can we get “how to be a pirate: surgeon edition” next
Yes Grey can go on a rant about the medical practice of the time.
Treatment 1: Saw it off. Treatment 2: Pray.
@@ragnerschwarzmane3412 You forgot burning iron or molten alsphalt.
/carpenter edition
Then carpenter and an average crew
there's a dark undercurrent of absolute determinism in a lot of what the quartermaster says. The captain is a more jolly fellow. You know, except when he's talking about torture
boop!
Now you're getting it
Not surprising. The captain is a leader of men. The quartermaster is a bean counter.
the captain MUST be charismatic and succesful or be replaced
Anders Korsbäck Captain leads, Quartermaster feeds.
“Our customers don’t necessarily like to be serviced “ I love this line so much 😂😂😂😂
i would totally watch this episodic-comedy where no one changes, with the captain and quartermaster being the leads. a left-brain-right-brain dynamic (with some others in there, A.K.A carpenter/surgeon, the lancer crewmate, and disgruntled loyalist prisoner)
Yes!
As mentioned before, "treasure" does not always mean "gold and jewels". While lovely to have and to pay the crew with, it can often be more helpful to seize a "customer's" food or tools or repair supplies; why pay for such things in port, which may be days or weeks away, when you can take them for free right now when you need them? In extreme cases, such as if your ship is badly damaged and perhaps one big storm away from not making it to a friendly port, and/or if the "customer" you've "serviced" has a particularly nice and able ship of their own, the crew may even vote to either abandon their old ship in favor of the new or appoint one of their own as captain of their new second ship, and thus a pirate fleet is born. In short, the rule is thus: On the high seas, you cannot fill bellies with gold, you cannot patch holes with jewels. So take what you need the most, be it bullion or boards, silver or salt pork, gemstones or gunpowder.
Take what you want (and what you need), because a pirate is free! You are a pirate???
@@hearing4267 give nothing back
Because this has not been mentioned, I'm just imagining your words being said by CGP. lol
Great pastiche of CGP
@@OwOstrich gonna have a pimped out ship when this is over.
This might be the calmest pirate I've ever seen, I feel soothed listening to this
The quartermaster is well versed in the secret and brutal arts of accounting...
Yeah, other than battle pirate ships were pretty chill, there was even a strict bedtime at 8 pm
ASMR pirates for the win
Honestly, I was a bit put off by the bored tone of voice. Normally love Grey but I struggled to connect with this one because of the voice over.
@@williamtench2047 I think it's how he's acting here Quartermaster has a much "tougher" job than the rest and likely puts up with a lot of bullshit, hence the no nonsense deadpan tone. ... But yeah I get you. It definitely gives it a different personality than the Captain video.
I really like the legally distinct pirates theme playing in the background
Captain Grey: "Pirate life is amazing if you've got the guts!!" Quartermaster Grey: "Yeah let me tell you the reality, kid"
It blows my mind thar pirate ships had workmans comp. in an age when most businesses did not.
It’s just practical. In a business outside the law, the only real way to ensure loyalty and continued employment is generous compensation for service as mob rule could just as easily descend over a pirate ship.
right?
@@kojeb In addition the mob was also an early innovator in areas such as health insurance, old age pensions, and workers comp. When you were in they took care of you. A reasonable precaution when people unhappy with their treatment could go to the cops. The stick was real, but the carrot made its job easier
@@kojeb That shows how much the law is designed to benefit corporations instead of the people.
Hey. Manpower was precious. Not like you can just barge into any inn and say "WE NEED 10 PIRATES!" No. That was just for the ones in the other side of the law.
"So what'd you get your degree in?" "Pirate Economics"
Welcome aboard matey!
During my Econ degree my professor liked to spend a lot of time discussing Pirate contracts and their relevance in Game Theory lol
YwarI was the ikdeAcn Wiob
I got my BA in English, but pirate economics have always come naturally to me. That's how I got a free PS4 and half of my PS4 games at Best Buy. Just gotta know where the blind spots are 😈
@@pro-ductionspelis2455 where could a simpleton find such contracts?
Not only an excellent overview of piracy, but also an excellent general overview of a oft overlooked economic system: the economics of crime. Bravo!
"If there is no surgeon, the carpenter will be surgeon." Does he get twice the pay?
No, because that wouldn't be equal
Depends on the pirate crew
I think he'd just get 1 1/2 shares like the quartermaster because while he's doing both jobs he's only one man so both quarters are only added to his one share
guess its up ot how the contract for the voyage is setup. but considering the importance of the role in minimizing loss of people, i'd say it would be fair.
He should
The monotone really sells the “this is just a business like any other” theme
1.3k likes without replies?
"9-5 for minimum wage" is supposed to sound bad but in reality colonial sailors of the empire probably worked much longer hours for much less pay.
No wonder they joined pirates. Cruel debasement like that does things to a man.
No matter what the average conditions of a time, they will seem normal, depending on the conditions experienced growing up. We are often fed up with our current conditions and yet arguably they are far better than at any previous time for our species, or for any species.
@@multiplyx100 If you take into account even the history of human civilization, which is over 10,000 years old, you could say that in a sense the few hundred years in the past are still basically a part of our current time. And they do share a lot of similarities with the present, such as the horrible treatment of the very people who make the civilization work, and the tyranny of leaders and bosses. While many things are better, the advancements have never been shared this unequally in human history (many places are still living in the past of 100 years ago, and some are even worse), and we have still a lot of work to do, which needs fundamental change and cannot be done with just better technology.
They worked watches. There were 3 watches. So, yes they did have about 8 hours of work/day. Excepting battle or storms. The hard part was simply the work itself. Have you ever tried to furl or unfurl a sail?
@@Dayvit78 They could've also been paid properly, and given comnfortable living conditions, if the social order had been more equitable. Same for now, except almost everyone could work for much less hours with the help of all of our technology.
The captain is the one you'd want to talk too. And the Quartermaster is the one you need to talk too.
One interesting observation I've made is that at the end of each video, the recruit points to the other video, but in the captain video, he refers to the quartermaster as 'that guy', whereas in this video he refers to the captain as the captain, representing the symbolism that the captain holds and the ambiguous yet important role the quartermaster plays.
I love how Grey completely changes his voice for the Quartermaster compared to the joyful Captain.
_"I know right! It's hilarious!"_
Raik how did you use italics?
I like the Quartermaster voice better.
*_"It's the voice I was given just like the gold of this cup chose its form."_*
@@questionablekumquat4484 You don't 'use' _italics,_ they use you. You need to go to _Italy,_ where all the _italics_ are created and ask the goddess for her blessing... Then add '_' at the beginning of a word and the end. It can be the whole phrase as long as the 'underscore' is touching a word (one at the beginning and one at the end). * for *bold* _ for _italics_ - for -not really lol-
"Saw skills? Why did he put saw skills in the matrix?" 2 minutes later: "Oh. Oh dear."
Yea, that’s not a bone saw. That’s a wood saw, using that to cut off a limb is a good way to get dead. You want a lot of fine teeth, not a few big ones. But then, this is me it the 21st century, is a 1st world country, saying this. You do what you have to do to survive.
@@Sef_Era any good carpenter will have a rough saw for large cuts and a fine saw for finish joinery (surprisingly important as a shipwright back in the day). The fine-toothed saw, assuming properly cleaned (conveniently, a little soap and brine works pretty well), it would be serviceable as a bone saw.
It's really only in the past century or so that surgeons didn't immediately jump to amputation for battle-related injury. They were called sawbones for a reason.
Yeah i at first thought it meant savv skills. "Oh. Oh, dear" for me as well :)
Thanks for pointing that out, now I can't stop laughing lol.
It took me a while to realize that this was just a super simplified version of how worker coops work but dressed as pirate business.
Fun fact: The Pirate's Code or rather the Captain's or Ship's Code, was a legitimate form of contract, the most popular by far was Captain Henry Morgan's. In which crew was vastly compensated for pillaging, plundering, and even compensated for losing a limb or an eye. It's no wonder he was the richest man in the world.
Quartermaster: *facts and logic* Captain: YARR HARR PIRATE SPEAK AND ALLITERATION AHOY!
BRANDING🌈!!!
@Mycel I think this is a Monkey Island joke right ?
@Mycel My BRAND
Lol, limewire
Snowflake quartermaster DESTROYED with YAR HARRS and ALLITERATION
Pirates: Looting and Killing Also Pirates: B R A N D I N G
Who owns the pirate ship?
Technically they all do. Shareholders all.
well so wad du u do ohhh i do B R A N D I N G = 0
@ they are all poor someone had to bring it
Also also Pirates: Economic Equilibrium of Supply and Demand... for Booty
Love the captain's personality being showed throughout the entire video, looking down and checking on them when they were in the BOOTY room, looking out the canon window because the sea was more interesting, giggling at the quartermaster saying booty, always being so cheeky and excited about treasure and battle, not seeming to care much about anything else and just leaving it to the quartermaster, and more!
Every crew, be it an Army Company or Navy Ship, needs a CO and XO. One must be thoughtful, his counterpart must be charismatic. It does not matter which is which; as long as each are present and both work together. In this case, the Captain is charismatic, and the Quartermaster is thoughtful.
The customers of piracy aren’t the victims, the customers are the fences willing to buy discounted stolen goods. The victims are “suppliers” subject to “intensive negotiating tactics”
You sound like you have a degree in marketing (from the PR expertise, not the economics).
I thought that initially, too. But then, these "customers" give the servicers money.
@Ragnar Some ships just carried/carry around a lot of money, but for most the transport of value was something else.
@Ragnar It's a myth that pirates buried their treasure. It may have happened very rarely, but pirates didn't expect to live very long, so they pretty much spent their -booty- treasure on alcohol and women as quickly as possible.
The victims are treated as a passive resource to be harvested, like ore, livestock, or grain. Like mining, pirating can be dangerous work. Unlike mining, it doesn't actually produce anything of value - it just changes value's possession - and is actually destructive of value when you factor in the damage to target vessels and crew along with waste like the extra security that is needed to confront piracy.
CGP GREY: makes intelligent comments and gives insightful knowledge Also him : *giggles while saying biggest booty*
Not him. The captain and the recruit.
"That is the law of equivalent exchange!"
Coolman1938 Yes who voices the captain and recruit?
Dan C The captain and recruit dummy
It's not just any booty, it's the biggest booty.
These two videos might be my favorites that Grey has ever done. Not only do you learn about pirates, but about branding and economics, too. :)
And organised labour and workplace democracy...
I love all of the historical flags you recreated at 1:54 in your stick figure style, really neat.
I like how the quartermaster only ever _slightly_ smiles at 5:37, when he's looking at money
Good eye! Aye.
You see mere gold, but I see the health of the ship, its company and its crew. I see our reputation. I see bigger cannons and better shot. I see better food that lasts longer, as we venture further and further into new riches to plunder. I see opportunity. I see the seeds of a giant orchard waiting to be planted and grown. I do not just see mere gold.
@@manictiger Holy shit that's an awesome quote. Is it yours to claim, or have you recounted it from elsewhere? Either way, thank you.
@@manictiger Aye, and wenches and booze besides!
Lots of commenters seem pretty sold on the pirating life as presented here, but just remember that the quartermaster is speaking from survivorship bias.
What do you mean? And yes. I know what the survivorship bias is.
Yahya Chothia only a good quartermaster that keeps his head down and gets on with the work and who’s crew does their jobs well will live to tell the tale and a good quartermaster has quite a boring lifestyle
@@yahyachothia I mostly mean it in the literal sense. Some crews were quite successful, but pirating is risky business and many crews died on the job, starved at sea, or returned unsuccessful with nothing to show for their efforts but warrants for their arrest. QM doesn't hide this, after all, but he does glide to other topics rather quickly.
@@GoneZombie which is what reality is
@@GoneZombie but like...he doesn't glorify it?
"In our societal and technological environment, an economic niche exists. And this incorporation of pirates fills its shape as whiskey fills a barrel. Such is life. The motions we choose (are) but the sum of forces upon us. I became a pirate as the gold in this grail chose its form. The both of us (are) now cogs of this machine that profits on the high seas or perishes." - The quartermaster of Pirate Inc., 2020 -
"I would like to hear from the captain" "I would like to hear from the quartermaster" "I would like to hear from the surgeon" "I would like to hear from the carpenter" "I would like to hear from the crew" "I would like to hear from the public" "I would like to hear from the dock workers" "I would like to hear from the captain of that empire's ship" "I would like to hear from the empire" "I would like to hear from the empire's crew" "I would like to hear from Fritz."
I would actually like to hear from Fritz
who's Fritz
@@pedropedrohan102 the guy selling fish in his boat right next to the pirates
@@CraigTheCriminal ok
0:50 Already, Grey is showing his love for the humble hexagon...
I thought it was a civ reference
Its the bestagon!
@@henriquetolentino1055 it is Catan reference, and also Bestagon
hexagons... are the bestagons
And triangles and many othr shapes wanna be the bestagon but that woukd be the hexagon
Why is CGP Grey suddenly interested in the logic and business model of pirates? And also is there a Google Form to fill up? Asking for a friend.
He read a book about it and adapted it to this format. The Invisible Hook. He recommends it in the description. Same thing with Rules and Rulers, which was adapted from The Dictator's Handbook. As for why those books caught his eye, because they explore the pragmatic side of very broadly chaotic concepts (such as piracy or dictatorship) which appeals to him personally?
He's convincing his subs to join up, I for one would love to be part of Grey Beard's crew
Evergreen Where can I sign up?
@@anothergermanmapper7754 Here on the dotted line. .................
He must be playing Eve Online, that's why there's fewer videos.
This makes me want to have an absolute deadpan business-minded quartermaster in my next D&D game
I keep returning to this, every few months, because the thought fascinates me: A modern business running on one of those pirate charters... no investors, just crew!
Such businesses exist - they're called co-operatives. They're relatively uncommon because despite the obvious benefits to workers of such a setup, conventional corporations have better access to capital, a more consistent profit motive for expansion, often more competitive margins due to lower wages, and (usually) stabler leadership. Still, some do succeed, and the world would probably be a better place if they comprised mroe of the economy.
I feel like the justification that "if we don't do it someone else will" is the beginning of a lot of really questionable decisions.
Also known as capitalism.
Yes. But also consider that if you want to make the thing being done stop, no amount of blaming/removing the person currently doing it is enough. Hanging lots of pirates doesn't stop piracy all by itself.
This two video is really dark albeit the cheerful presentation.....
The whole point of entrepreneurship is to find or create niches that haven't been exploited yet. Piracy was a pretty big niche.
@@maxmichalik4938 So you're saying Pirates are the pinnacle of libertarian right? Sign me the fuck up..
'We must act, even though our customers don't want to be serviced' *Modern problems require modern solutions*
-CPG GREY
Telemarketers in a shellnut (unless the customers call you then that doesn't count as not wanting to be serviced)
@@beckettthirion3147 at least telemarketers don't torture their clients to death
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@@bawicz0 wtf
I am exactly the right kind of high for this. The Quartermasters "quotation fingers" killed me. Still dead lmao
4:18 All hail the almighty Supply and Demand graph, that which has toppled empires and built civilizations.
5:37 love how the quartermaster's sleepy eyes open up when he sees the money hahahaha
And he smiles
N I C E
Its bussiness
Think of how many spreadsheets that can be filled out with all that boo-...Treasure
Who doesn't like booty? Booty be licious.
The Captain describing piracy: :D The Quartermaster describing piracy: :I
The pirate describing piracy: :c (at least according to Sam o'nella)
The Empire describing piracy: D:
The viewer describing piracy: :D
The Empire sailor describing piracy: ;(
I don't know, large profits, ability to leave at any time, good benefits and having input sounds like a damn good deal.
Carpenter: "How different can fixing bones be from fixing furniture, really?"
“ what’s genetics?” “ doesn’t matter.” Best
IMPORTANT NOTE ABOUT “PIRATE PORTS”! 6:03 It should be noted that “Pirate-friendly ports” were a product of the same economy as... pirates. You’ll find good examples not in the Caribbean but in the poor, underdeveloped and *shallow* ports of North Africa, where legal trade was... unviable. Some ports were just doomed to being “pirate friendly” because of their geography. Such ports were frequented by Ottoman pirates and the pirates’ booty (which includes vital supplies that are much harder to buy legally) fed the ports. P.S. Do note that I’m just paraphrasing Turkish historian Emrah Safa Gürkan.
Heh... 'booty'
Honorary Mancunian i was gonna day that
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It seems like such an insane amount of human history is determined by geography. Grey should do a video on it
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I like how the captain is everywhere lol he is so cute and very enthusiastic about recruiting him 🥰
1:30 When the anime studio blows its whole budget on that one fight scene
“What’s genetics?” “Doesn’t matter”
The econ 101 graph is just as much an anachronism.
@@TheOnyomiMaster Sometimes, you just have to let anachronisms through to make your audience understand, especially when it's a quick clear simplified video about a special topic.
@@TheOnyomiMaster I suspect the basics of "sell things for as much as people will pay you for" has been around a great bit longer than the pirate days, if not in the same exact terms.
They know genetics/breeding as it relates to animals.
"Working 9-5 on a ship of the empire for minimum wage.... ....as banal days pass eroding the dreams and aspirations of your younger self. Leaving you at the end to wonder how it all slipped away." Eerily real
That's a relatable fear in all ages, I imagine.
It's a really interesting idea that the only thing standing between the average man and total lawlessness, is economic incentive.
Someone just walked over my grave real.
@kie Nice bait.
@kie This is pasta, right?
how Grey can do two different characters without really changing his voice at all, just the delivery, and still have them sound like two very different characters is... Well it's talent, really... True talent
This is great! You should make a modern day version with public corporations vs private start ups, which is basically the exact same thing
5:36 the only time the Quartermaster smiles is when looking at the profits.
It's also the only time the applicant whistles.
Drone_Better nope! 3:32
Well, the quartermaster inevitably must be someone who wants big riches and is willing to risk his life for it and break all laws as well.
"I'd like to talk to the captain first." He dies like that. He gets stuck in a loop of asking the captain and the quartermaster until the heat death of the universe.
Perfect analogy for Grey's occasional indecision
But by doing so he locks the two and their ship and crew in the same loop, preventing them from raiding. For which the applicant is paid under the table by the Empire.
It's been more than two years, and I'm still stuck in the endless cycle of listening to the Captain and the Quartermaster... When will this hell end?
I cannot express how much this makes my accountant heart happy!
From robots to tumbleweed to missile facility to pirates. God damn grey
...gotta love this amazing shift in career fields every week or so
K.K. Slider is that one other cool dog who has been places.
Gotta say 24 hours of death was my favourite though.
And the forgotten 1st episode of the series on American Indians. I want the rest of that series so bad.
Jack of all trades, master of... also all trades.
"How to be a Pirate: Crewmen Edition"
TheSilentKing yessss
That’ll be fun to see!
How to be a pirate: Sam o’nella edition
Empire edition please ))))
Crewman: Don't die.
I really wish more companies would follow the business model of “share the profits”.
I'm stuck in the loop... it has been weeks
I'd like to hear... From the captain
I clicked for pirate fun facts. Ended up watching an explenation of the difference bewtween a Workers cooperative and and regular capitalist owned business. Well played Sir, Well played.
Yes he gets it!
I love how the Captain is so enthusiastic while the Quarter Master just takes him to one side and explains his job in the same way that he would be explaining tax returns.
Like in the video said, the captain is mostly there to entertain the crew, otherwise the crew will elect another captain, except in battle. So a good captain has probably a very enthusiastic character. A quartermaster to check the books, the rations etc. So there personalities in the video are very fitting for there job.
@@AlvarVraal Except, things always go wrong in battle. And, the captain needs to secure his position so that the wrongs of the battle don't get assigned to him. Therefore, the captain entertains and has to be charismatic and endlessly enthusiastic to keep the public opinion of the crew on his side.
I love that grail being molded. Just a solid gold grail. No cup, nowhere to put the liquid and drink out of, just a chunk of gold.
This is a whole new take on high seas piracy that I never actually considered, and it makes sense. You can't just gather a bunch of friends, go and plunder without issues, fight other ships willy nilly and get into sword fights without considering the cost-benefit ratio. Of course piracy would be more like a democratic enterprise than anything else. Contracts ease the transitions of power and payment for work which would have to happen one way or another. Anything else would cause infighting and a very failed pirate ship.
it also makes you think about the social contract of the world in which this makes sense. it’s a world where lots of treasure were being shipped around (worth pirating), and yet the average guy sees nothing but a pittance of it (so little hope that risking the law might be worth it).
CGP Grey: "These videos show us that pirates aren't like the movies." Also CGP Grey: "I wonder what BGM I should use for these videos..."
Not only are they different from what we see in the movies, they often worked FOR the Empire and not against it. Britain was well known for issuing Letters of Marque that gave permission to people to be privateers. To their enemies, they were pirates. Sir Francis Drake was very famous pirate/privateer and war hero.
@@CaptainBill22 The Spanish all despise him! But to the British He's a hero And they idolize him! It's how you look at buccaneers That makes us bad or good, And I see us as members of a noble brotherhood!
@@wppb50 10/10 movie quote
Oh yes, the Empire's famous willingness to "hire" low paying sailors... And by that I mean a lot of people weren't desperate enough for that low of pay, so the Empires would just press gang whomever they could kidnap and force into working. Or get drunk enough/tricked enough to be duped into signing a contract.
Turns out, Empires _were_ the bad guys! Who could have thought?
Where do you get this information?
Only marginally worse than the army recruiters of our day
@@josephmoore4764 that margin being army recruiters cant conscript you
@@NyalBurns the cause for the war of 1812 was the impressment of American Soldiers, and piracy took place almost 150 years before that. It's safe to say the british empire wasn't exactly good to "its" sailors
This makes pirates sound like the nicest people ever.
neither of these videos have deterred me from piracy, in fact they reinforce it. i love the brand and i love the organization
The last video was good as hell.
but hell isnt good at all
@@IshanJain he meant heck but he wanted to be cool.
@@Kajthepiccolo kewl
THE EARTH ID REACHING THE TEMPERATURE OF HELL AND GREY NEEDS TO MAKE A VIDEO ABOUT IT
*boop*
I love the way you've set up the classic tonal difference between Marketing side and Accounting side within the popular, memetic, and terrifyingly cruel (in reality) world of piracy. Including a fair bit of the stereotypical difference in attitude. Accountants and their ilk are joked to be dull, humorless, over-reliant on rules and without initiative or creativity. Conversely, salesmen and their ilk are joked to be unscrupulous, immoral and manipulative, without regard for truth and honesty. I heard it said in business school that generally students either loved Marketing and hated Accounting or the reverse, and there's a mote of truth to that; Many students I knew found the rules of accounting confusing and exceedingly dull... Whereas I found the "right answers" in marketing to be infuriatingly arbitrary. Of course, business demands some success of both sides to function well.
I'm definitely never joking when I say that marketers are unscrupulous, immoral, and manipulative, without regard for truth and honesty.
i love how the quartermaster is way more monotone than the captain (and also how he doesn’t like saying “booty” while the captain is happy to say it at any opportunity)
This is really cool. This is also how anything works- kingdom, army, business, etc. You don't have an army without a quartermaster nor a business without a finance person. Logistics make things run.
"I'd like to hear from that guy" *watches video* "I'd like to hear from the captain" *watches video* "I'd like to hear from the quarter master" *watches video* "I'd like to hear from the captain" *watches video* "I'd like to hear from the quarter master" *watches video* "I'd like to hear from the captain" *watches video* "I'd like to hear from the quarter master" *watches video* "I'd like to hear from the captain" *watches video*
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Grey Knew what he was doing
But did he decide to be a pirate in the end?
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Oh no, they are going to use this concept to make movies next. WHAT HAVE YOU DONE!?