The Economy of Cyberpunk 2077: A Game of Cautionary Tales (And Bugs) | Economics Explained
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This is night city, the futuristic metropolis which is home to most of the action taking place in cyberpunk 2077, which has quickly become the most popular PC benchmarking software in 2020.
There are a few reasons I wanted to explore the economy of this fictional world, for starters I gotta cash in on a subject that’s at the top of Google Trends, It’s been a while since I have done a virtual economy, I need a way to class my new gaming PC as a business expense and of course it actually genuinely very interesting.
Part of the appeal of this game was the way it wove an alternative reality in with themes and events that are taking place in our modern world to build an economy that both feels abstract but also entirely possible.
That virtual economy then builds the framework of an immersive world that is equally realistic and fanciful.
The world of cyberpunk 2077 is a cautionary dystopian tale that takes modern economic issues, like wealth inequality, corporate influence, white-collar corruption, militarisation, black market dealings and environmental degradation, and then turns those headlines up to to a whole new level to let people experience making their way through a world where these problems go unchecked.
It also goes without saying that this game has made headlines for a host of technical issues that have perhaps continued the theme of shining a light on economic problems in the real world.
So the economics of cyberpunk 2077 is a great case study for lots of weird and wonderful economic happenings.
How did the economy of this virtual world get to where it is in the year 2077.
What are the key components of Night City’s economy?
And a bit of a tangent
What business decisions led to the chaos surrounding the game’s launch.
Oh and cyberpunk 2077 technically takes part in an independent city-state so you know what the hey, may as well throw it on the economics explained national leaderboard.
Oh but first A little disclaimer, this video will not have any spoilers relevant to the plot, so don’t worry for all of you that haven’t been able to play the game yet (which is basically everybody).
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Sure it didn't just fall through the floor due to a bug?
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Do GTA's economy next
A 3090?
This is a cross over I was not expecting.
*grabs tea*
Oh hey
@@EconomicsExplained oh hi :) *clinks mug*
@@EconomicsExplained Time for a Templin Institute collab?
grabs VB LONG NECK
Indeed cry pto t rading has proved to be very profitabl , more people are beginning to reap the massive gains in the cry pto market.
There’s a painting in the game you can sell for $4000 and buy back for $5. And you can sell and resell it for infinite amount of times. If Cyberpunk world actually exist, I can buy all the big corporations in no time.
Lmao
I was a businessman doing business
S t o nk?
I mean, you can do that irl, it's just usually done as a form of money laundering, so you aren't really selling it for that money, just selling it to explain that money.
If you assume that the vendor has infinite money, then you would be causing so much runaway inflation that big corporations would be valued at billions of time more than it currently is.
Next up economics of minecraft villages
Considering the price of emerald and the fact that each emerald is one ninth of a cubic meter, their GDP is actually enormous. But the cost of living is equally monstruous
@@Duke_of_Lorraine like how much
@@Duke_of_Lorraine
their emeralds are less valuable than real-world emralds.
it might as well be sea shells, or pebbles or something, it's just a medium of exchange.
1 Emerald = 24 wheat
1 loaf of bread = 3 Emeralds.
You explain that
@@tylerailshie1610 cost of labour :/
Cyberpunk is honestly more horrific than real life. The worst that could happen to you online is Identity theft or having your data gathered; in Cyberpunk 2077, hackers can straight up kill people using the internet.
Well, yes and no.
1) you could use the web safely in the cyberpunk world. You'd just be significantly weaker, hence why hackers and such don't do it. A bit like you are really unlikely to die in a car if you never go above 30 km/h.
2) Hackers can totaly kill people in the real world, both directly and indirectly. There have e.g been showcases where white hat hackers got acees to certain cars systems via a hack, and then shut it off. Imagine that happening when going full speed on a highway in a curve or high trafic. Theres also indirect thing like hacker attacks on power grids. Combined that with extreme heat/cold, and some people will die from that.
"You cant make this stuff up" uhm, well didn't they?
alright look here you little...
@@EconomicsExplained
Bruh
wasn't he talking about the fact that the inspiration was a distopian society in 2020 which happens to be when the game released.
@@GhostEmblem And also the Coronavirus was released.
ICE being mentioned thoughts go to Kelly Loeffler
16:08
EE: 5.6 out of ten.
Screen: Nah bruh, 7.2.
*confusion intensifies*
I know, it was a mistake in my video editor, I realised about 20 seconds after uploading.
@@EconomicsExplained Not cool man, unsubscribed.
Just kidding man, love your videos. Keep 'em coming ;-)
@@EconomicsExplained It's a shame that editor had to be brought out behind the shed, he had promise.
I would love to term that as a *bug*
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Make a video on literally anything you want to write off on tax. Big Thonking
Economics of Yachts and Lobster coming soon
@@EconomicsExplained Bruh 🤣
@@EconomicsExplained Australian lobster is pretty cheap atm.
@@EconomicsExplained more like KREEP sir
@@EconomicsExplained list strippers as research costs?
Economics of skyrim if you have a lot of free time.
I'm kinda curious too but mostly about the Economics of Feudalism
Farming and mead?
The economy can't be great due to the fact there are 1,000 bandits for every farmer.
@@TheManicMole basically it goes like this. I have men with swords whose only job is to fight and kill people. You may grow food on my land and work directly for me a certain amount of days per year. You may not leave the village without my permission unless you manage to avoid capture for a year and a day. On top of this you may be called to be used as cannon fodder when we are at war. In return you can live on my land and live in a house I own.
yes pleaseee
no no tamriel
They just decided to do the rest of the corpo storyline irl
M E T A
Did this man just put Night City into the Economics Explained National Leaderboard? Lmao 🤣
he did
😂
And then he took it back off.
Excuse me... Spoiler alert?
@@EconomicsExplained Didn't even get the number right.
EE does university level maths
EE says Playing around with silly numbers
Don't worry mate I failed maths at university
@@EconomicsExplained Idk if that makes me feel better or worse ^^
@@EconomicsExplained me too fam, feel your pain
@@EconomicsExplained I kinda barely passed Maths 1A and 1B and didn't want to know how painful 2A would get
EE: *publishes a video about Cyberpunk 2077*
Everyone: "You're breathtaking!"
Last time I was this early, cd projeck was still making Witcher 1
It is funny when you realize that the Eurodollar they talk about in the game predates the Euro as an actual currency by almost a decade.
Here before this video is recommended to everyone in 2077 :)
see you in 5 decades
Too late
Just imagine what could actually happen then if we have this world now here on 2020.
I wuz here
I wonder if I am still alive by then
I would love to raise my demands for a video on economics of tribal communities
South asian communities!
@@PROFEZIO5 that sounds and feels racist.
@@victorviereck4117 Why?
Heard that tribes are still very important in many African nations, so it's probably still relevant.
+1
Economics of stock footage next
The Economical Economics of Economics Explained Explained is coming soon
@@EconomicsExplained seriously?
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAH! xD
EE: "lets look at Night Citie's stability"
Johnny Silver-hand: "Allow me to introduce myself"
The writing off of anew gaming pc as a business expense hit too close home 🤣
Hello fellow Slav. I 100% agree with you. I had to upgrade my pc just to play this game
@@lukasokolovsky519 hey there buddy! Was using speech to text thus so many mistakes lol 😅 have a good one, friend! Its fascinating that there are people who speak Russian and watch the same niche channel like me))
@@philipppo1991 👋🏻 hey. I speak English fluently and most of the people who I watch are English Chanels. But it’s cool that I ran in to you )
Sony pulled cyberpunk because CDPR made Sony look bad with their refund policy.
Sony is arasaka
A part that was missing when you explained the collapse was the role the EU played. They supplied the nuke that went off and where very hostile to the USA so little to no aid or loans could be expected. And because it takes place in the 90s China was not at the point where they would be able to supply capital to help a recovering US. So essentially the US collapsed in on itself because there was no one around to help it because they had isolated everyone with the wars in South America. Also the Gang of Four after nuke started manipulating the stock market to make it seem everything was fine when the fraud was discovered the US financial system collapsed. So simply there so no aid. Just a bit of extra detail to help explain it. Great video!
@@fortusvictus8297 yeah. but only because things are so awesome in the ccp that they totally forget to write home. Stop asking Questions.
@@fortusvictus8297
While Arasaka also operate in USSR ; p
The Gov: Imma use your data and information.
The people: No that's EVIL!!! and WRONG!
Mega Corps: Imma use your data and information.
The people: Yes, please enslave me too.
Tbh there is no difference, mega corps however could use ideologies and pretend larp as both sides, and become more popular then governments since all governments can do is rely on cringe politicians or dated religions. Mega corps can either shout a right conservative speech or left leaning communist manifesto and shout they are anti corporate and in reality they are very pro corporate as heck, 4d chess these folks play.
mostly agree with this assessment except for the growth. in 2023, night city had a literal nuke go off in its city centre.
recovering from that would take a great deal, and i guess the only real world comparison would be the economic recovery and rebuilding of Hiroshima or Nagasaki by the year 1999.
i but of course in order to work those numbers out accurately you would have needed to scour the Cyberpunk 2020 sourcebooks and effectively build 2 city profiles, so i don’t blame ya
Edit: Ah wait, an in game loading screen lore tip mentions on how the Night City lost nearly a third of its population in 2076. That definitely is not growth lol. may have rebuilt, but has certainly stagnated
hmm that's fair, although with 54 years I still think it could have made up more ground than that.
There is also the whole breakdown of the net and international trade. Which happens partly or fully multiple times in Cyberpunk history. It really is almost a post-apoc setting.
@@EconomicsExplained I have mixed feelings on this one but I partially disagree. Wiki puts Hiroshima's GDP in 2010 at $61.3bn. This is after about roughly 65 years of economic recovery, most of which would be unusable due to radiation and any other after-effects.
Night City, on the other hand, is a relatively young city that would have had to be built from scratch. This would include moving a population there which as we know from modern city projects can be difficult.
Take Brasilia or Canberra, one with ridden inequality and the other unable to outgrow the former capital. Add the nuke and the radiation it would have to suffer along with whatever rioting it may cause and businesses caring more about profits than the well-being of their city-state. (Egypt's new capital might be a very good point of comparison for building a city out the middle of the desert in the future.)
I do not think their futuristic industry would make up for it unless they had star trek level replicators or something nullify radiation (if the bomb was a nuke). Not to mention Night city's hidden GDP may make up a very large part of its wealth.
@@CamoHunt8 The radiation would probably pose much less of a threat to Night City, assuming it was a low-yeild nuke. Within 48 Hours the radiation would have dropped to about 1%, and within a couple years the radiation should be negligible. Also given their medical advancements, curing cancer and other illnesses as a result of radiation poisoning should be within their abilities. Now the societal effects of the bombing would definitely cause much more long term damage.
Night City took a huge hit in 2075-77 because Arasaka had come back and basically moved to stomp all remotely serious competition out of Watson, one of the largest parts of the city. That also caused the whole neighbourhood to collapse economically as collateral damage, leaving Arasaka free to buy out half the cities harbour area and put it to their own exclusive use.
If you're considering looking at fictional economies, might I recommend the economy of Halcyon from the Obsidian game 'Outer Worlds'. It's basically an entire solar system ran by a few companies where employees are also essentially property.
Can I get a heart, EE?
sure why not, I don't pay for these things
@@EconomicsExplained
"tax-deductible..." ;)
your sarcastic acknowledgements of the hellscape of late capitalism that we live under truly pains me
Anytime someone writes 'late capitalism' on the internet, i chuckle a little.
@@GRIIMMJAQUES "Late Stage Capitalism?" *Evil laughter* "We're just getting started!"
- Jeff Bezos
This channel just gets better and better. Thank you for your videos!
Great video! I'd like to see "Economy of the Imperium of Man" from Warhammer 40k for the next fictional economy. That would be cool.
Mr Economics Man from Kangaroo land has finally put the new RTX 3090 to it's video editing use.
yup yup hard at work
love it! I have been watching through your playlists while playing! So this is much appreciated.
Just wanted to say I really love this channel!
I appreciate that!
“Hong Kong is grounded by reality”
Do you mean grounded by the CCP ;P
The growth score should be higher imo, since the US experienced an unimaginable recession in the 1990s + 2023 sees the Arasaka tower nuclear explosion. I'd say rebuilding the economy from nothing to getting toe to toe with real life powers GDP withing 50 years is a good performance
Having 200 billions gdp is nowhere near “getting toe to toe” with real life powers
One of the holotapes in the game reveals that Night City lost something like 23% of its population in 2076 alone...that seems like a relevant figure to take into account when considering Growth
Thank you for this video!!! I was wondering abut Nightcity economics straight from the beginning !
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Sorry for late response I was very busy
Do well to respond 🙏
This is like the wildest crossover of two of my favorites I never thought would’ve ever existed , CP77 and EE
I wouldn’t mind seeing a list for fictional economies someday, just for the fun and to give the opportunity for more content for this channel.
If there were enough bugs irl, then I would be the richest man in the world.
Same
@@Manuel-gu9ls finally someone understood my messed up sense of humour
Apparently physics engine glitches out at temperatures close to absolute zero.
@@Gnidel It was reported to the devs a few years ago so it's probably going to get fixed with the Fourth Industrial Revolution & Spatial Expansion update
I think @TheSpiffingBrit is far more in advance than anyone here.
When you put night city on the EE Leaderboard, it shows a score of 7.2 instead of 5.6.
Top Drake: playing 75 hours to get the story.
Bottom Drake: playing 75 hours to understand Economics Explained.
There is a disconnect between what you said and what was shown on screen for the EE leader board, you said 5.6 but showed a 7.2
I can’t believe my favorite economic youtube channel made this video! Yey! Its like christmas!
Love your stuff. Keep up the good work!
Welp this is prolly my favourite video on eddies. Keep 'em coming choomba, you're a true info bro. Even a gonk like me can appreciate.
Hahaha thanks mate, glad you enjoyed.
One of the most perplexing things is how short the main campaign is and how shallow the overall world is relative to the 8 year timeline. It seems like there were A LOT of inefficiencies and reworking done during the development process, such as changing the entire storyline to allow for Silverhand to be the epicenter of the main story (which seems to have happened since he was brought on in 2018).
sounds well researched ... excellent ... gamification the focus on the current research I'm doing on an academic paper
Requested this last video, I'm hyped
Yeaaaaa keep up the good work senpai merry Christmas and happy new year
Thanks! You too! Merry Christmas mate!
The economics of flying car bugs
It's the future. Cars are supposed to be flying.
Dang Congrats on 800K truly a Channel about economics which doesn’t put you to sleep.
Well at least most of the time.
Love your videos man!!!
Yesterday I was asking myself: whether EE is going to make an video about the Economy of Cyberpunk 2077, today here it is. Impressive!
The future is here. Greetings from Argentina
@Din Joekhannaz We have dual exchange rates, 40% inflation, -12% GDP, Maradona is dead.... I would say pretty normal
@@MAtogable I want to feel bad for you but... I’m British
@Chidori457 Whole different set of islands. Malvinas you meant
@@sdprz7893 Anyway, this guy is right... the economic future for developed countries look similar to Argentina's present. Think Argentina was one of the richest countries 100 years ago and then populism came, It started like what you are experiencing now, Brace for impact
Amazing and very educational video. Awesome job!
GRETTINGS FROM ARGENTINA!!! I'M SO HYPED THAT YOU'RE FINALLY GOING TO DO A VIDEO ABOUT US!
(we do have some economic things going on that will make it an interesting video for all the international fans
It's not bugs. That's how things works in the year 2077!! 😂🤣
Megacorporations using the net to monitor track, control and collect data, pretty hard to imagine right
Shows Amazon Alexa
Perfetion
@@fortusvictus8297 i guess I’ll have to be careful before destroying the internet then
This is a really nice channel, keep up the good work from Norway! ;)
Thanks Gretten
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Sorry for late response I was very busy
Do well to respond 🙏
This is why I love this channel!
I'm here before most ppl and have something witty to say to game the algorithm for likes.
She: Please help me prepare dinner.
EE: Sorry can't help you, I'm playing Cyberpunk 2077.
She: The game where a vending machine makes infinite money and you needed that 3090 for "research"?
EE: Yeah, I only need to do this one mission!
She: Just Pause the game, it's not online no Excuses!!!
EE: Noo, it will interfere with this perfect sim of society! It contains wealth inequality, corporate influence, white collar corruption, militarisation, black market dealings and enviromental degredation.
She: Vending Machine make infinite money!!!
EE: RESEARCH!!!!!!!!!!!
Edit: Would anyone pay 188€ a month to skype with EE?
yeah more or less the EE household this week
Good video. If you're looking for megacorporate dystopian futuristic economies, you might enjoy CBC (Canadian TV)'s Continuum, which explores the pros and cons of this response (including literal debt slavery) to an economic and political collapse in depth, along with some possible reactionary groups.
Could u possibly make a vid on the econs of cities in withcer 3? It'd be quite interesting seeing how ancient economies work
"which has quickly become the most popular PC benchmark software of 2020"
Hold my yoke...
Aww yeah, can't wait for Argentina! I'm not an economist, but I live there so feel free to hit me up if I can help you with anything.
Tengo que admitir que me agrada que nos tomen de ejemplos de mala administración monetaria en la mayoría de los canales.
I have to admit that I like being taken from examples of monetary mismanagement on most channels.
PLEASE do another video on night city. I feel like you mentioned all the issues affecting night city without actually discussing them in any depth. Like what're the effects of megacorps handling municipal services? What're the reasons for and the effects from a large majority of business being underground/black market? What're the future prospects for night city? I feel like you can really do so much more with this topic.
Another brilliant video, thanks Mr. economic man
Glad you enjoyed it
you should make a video on our real-world like Ethiopia's economy and it's future
That’s too uncertain since Ethiopia might not even exist as a nation in its current form for much longer. With that being said, I hope you guys become the powerhouse you’re destined to be.
Its shocking how much Cyberpunk 2020 got right. Including 2020 being a bad time.
The fun part is that these events mostly occurred in lore BEFORE 2020. 2020 is actually supposed to be the "decent" year where gameplay takes place and the world isn't all ruined. In the newest edition Cyberpunk Red, come 2021 the 4th Corporate War Occurs and destroys the Internet, the total world economy, multiple major and minor governments and international institutions, and Night City when it gets Nuked. Cyberpunk Red takes place 2030s-2040s during the Time of the Red and the entire world is still rebuilding and will be until almost 2077
On point with the topic!
Such an accurate description of Coronado city as compared to how it is in real life on Coronado island in California today - it used to have a toll to get there, making it only achievable (along with high property prices and cost of living) for rich people to live and work there, or at least it started the transition for the neighborhood positioned right next to San Diego downtown to become an incredibly wealthy area. Today, it feels like a weird wealthy bubble where just rich people live, as if theyve sheltered themselves from the nearby problems of Chula Vista, the rest of San Diego, and even Mexico.
First jamaican.... please can You make a economic video of my country Jamaica ...
virsual politik did this already. They said jamaica is new singapore very interesting.
Jamakin’ lots of $$ selling ganja.
I have to admit, I felt that this video was a bit empty, especially on the "economics" side, compared to your usual stuff (and that includes your previous virtual economies)
I love this fiction economies, can you make one video about THE HUNGER GAMES economy and how each district specialized on specific industries?
Liked, subscribed, and all that fun stuff.
Euro Dollar sign looks like an abbreviation of credit score.
haha, you are not wrong
It wasn't a board game it was a table top RPG like Dungeons and Dragons. IT was AWESOME!
Here learning more about the world law from Mr Economics Man than from the game itself.
Great video! Thanks for sharing :)
Thanks for watching!
Recently,I invested in both stock and crypto but currently I believe crypto is doing much more better than stocks!
Of course crypto is doing far better than stock especially with the current surge in the price of Bitcoin.
Exactly, investment in crypto is the key to coming out of this economic crisis!!
The best thing to do in this current period is buy sliver and crypto Expecially Bitcoins✔️✔️✔️
Crypto is the future !!
Who have believed that by now bitcoin will be $23,000
This 2020 has been the best year for the bitcion investors the corona virus didn't have much effect on them !
Thank you for explaining why delaying it again wouldn't make the game better. I've been trying to articulate that for ages.
Glad to help!
NYSE Data Center is actually in Mahwah NJ about 20 minutes from me.. keep up the content !
This is exactly what I was waiting for thank you EE the vaatividya of economics
Hopefully you enjoyed mate :)
@@EconomicsExplained always
“So it gets an average of 5.6”
*It has 7.2*
lol
On the topic of hyperinflation, you should do a video on the current economic crisis that's been going on in Lebanon for the past year.
This man is a god at playing the trends
Another informative video, thanks. :)
Thanks for watching :)
Despite the economic crisis, this is still a good time to start up an investment
Just gotta be cautious; corporate goon squads can come and break your legs for interfering with a big corporations “local ventures.”
Maybe you can talk about how pandemics affect birth rates and its effect on the economy
The Economy of OSRS would interesting.
I have done the economy of Runescape :)
He did it!! He mentioned Genoa, my home city.. it's now a truly international city mentioned in an EE video!!
Last time I was this early I was still human
Here before the video starts bugging out
Sounds like the way to make headlines these days
I never knew I could enjoy economics, then I found your videos.
0:10 "for starters I've got to cash in on a subject that is top of google trends"🤣 spoken like a true businesses man.
Despite all the economic crisis, this is still a good time to start up an investment
Investing in crypto is a more lucrative way of making money
Absolutely right , I got 70% of my total portfolio in crypto and I have been making good profits
I wanted to trade crypto but got confused by the fluctuations in price
That won't bother you if you trade with a professional like Mr JohnBill
I heard that his strategies are really good
People would be kicking themself in few weeks if they don't invest in Bitcoin and other cryptocurrency, with the current price it's really profiting
Wow thats great, well I have also been an investor in Bitcoin for some years and sure, currently it's really profiting
Crypto has become a lucrative and. Profitable way of making money
It's very important for one to have different streams of income☺
I've been an investor and i can tell it changed my life for better 😊😊 investing in forex and crypto will be one of the wisest thing to do
I had interest in investing in forex and crypto but i was discourage by friends and family, i was being ingorant though
This is geniusssss... you are the best econ teacher I never had(never took econ).
It's also worth noting that NightCity GDP is likely shrinking at an alarming peace - one of the journals in the game says, that in 2077 alone the population of the city shrunk by a whopping 27%