11 Maps That Raise More Questions Than They Answer

[@patrickboner]

Can't believe ibx2cat arose to heaven and still have time to make a video

[@UnderfundedScientist]

Que the angelic music

[@ButtonXD]

*angelic singing in the distance*

[@chitlitlah]

You have nothing but time in heaven. I want to know what's up with all the chumps who used death as an excuse to quit making videos.

[@magneticchaos1483]

I stand by this absolute DEDICATION of this dead person

[@definitelynotcube713]

Death is NOT an excuse

[@adamd9610]

1:41 not one European country is even close to 90% forrest. Green on that map is caused more by agriculture areas and grasslands than forrests.

[@Koopa3000]

Exactly. Finland is the highest in Europe with 72% forest coverage.

[@AnimeReference]

41% woodland, 24% crop land, 17% grass land, 6% shrub land. The green is caused mostly by forest.

[@paulochon7692]

@@AnimeReference But today forest is part of agriculture in europe. The true wild forests have been destroyed for the most part.

[@AnimeReference]

@@paulochon7692 Forests being destroyed and recovering is also part of the natural process. Or are you talking about lumber farms where the trees are arranged in grid formation?

[@nonec384]

@@AnimeReference the farming forest arent natural and dont suport any wild life

[@ravinchowdhury5215]

In India, vegetarianism is neither religion based, or money based (usually). It’s more cultural. That’s why the Hindu population is 70% and vegetarianism is only 35% (not saying that it doesn’t play a role, but the main reason is different). People who live near the coast, for example, are more likely to eat fish. People who live in the desert (Rajasthan) have the highest rate of vegetarianism, for obvious reasons (animals need a lot of water). I highly recommend you look at a map of vegetarianism in India by state to see how varied it is.

[@thelakeman2538]

Religion particularly caste is still one of the main factors, like for example 55% of Brahmins tend to be vegetarian, ofc region also plays a role like as you said landlocked and drier states are more vegetarian than coastal states. Also Hindu population is close to 80% (79% according to 2011 census) and the ~35% vegetarian population also includes non-hindus (for example Jains, there are also significant vegetarian minorities among Christians and Muslims in India).

[@ravinchowdhury5215]

Also I don't think being poor or rich matters at all in this. If you're asked the question 'are you vegetarian', you don't think 'yes, I'm too poor to be non vegetarian'. Yes, you might not eat meat on a regular basis because you can't afford, but that doesn't mean you're a vegetarian and won't eat meat when presented with the opportunity to. Same goes for rich people, if a jain family becomes very wealthy, they won't suddenly become non vegetarians. You'll also see higher non vegetarianism in many African countries than in India and China. Are they richer, and is that why they're non vegetarian? Not really (usually). So yes, I would not correlate wealth and non vegetarianism at all.

[@thelakeman2538]

@@ravinchowdhury5215 that is true, the correct way of saying it would be meat consumption is tied to wealth but not vegetarianism and/or veganism. Like for example China's meat consumption increased rapidly with rapid economic growth, which is why today it is one of the largest meat consumers, despite having a significant vegetarian population.

[@Ron.S.]

I won’t forget that scene from 2001 - I’m in Rajasthan in Jaipur I think, heard that there’s a McDonald’s around. Didn’t eat meat for a year. I’m going there and I see a Bentley (!) stationed just in front of McDonald’s, driver waiting and the rich man (extremely obese and proud of it to show that he has money for food...), goes proudly inside. I follow him. I’m having what he’s having. He’s taking the “McChicken Maharajah meal” 😂 I’m trying my luck and asking for Big Mac No luck. Surreal. Unfortunately, that beautiful innocent India no longer exists. No more people happy with what they have. Money money money... So sad

[@Abhishek-sr2pu]

@@thelakeman2538 brahmins of east india also eat meat lel.

[@KhAnubis]

Honestly you low key could’ve done some investigative journalism about the Bhutan tax thing

[@treemoderator7312]

Hi

[@MrOoYT]

Do it with him 🤌

[@ibx2cat]

I wanna fly to Bhutan and buy a banana or something just to know for sure what the reciept says, I can't beleice a country actually has a 50% sales tax

[@MrOoYT]

@@ibx2cat beleice

[@robinsteens4172]

He can't Belize it?

[@Saturinus]

Sentence I thought I would never hear: "Fish are little sea carrots".

[@JmKrokY]

Same

[@chrisamies2141]

As a pescatarian I can but adopt the phrase 'sea carrot.'

[@turritopsisrockola]

Just doing their thing

[@sunnyjim1355]

Ikr... such a stupid comment.

[@tentathesane8032]

Bengalis call them "jala pushpa" which translates to "sea flower" and even their vegetarians eat them

[@zbigla]

Fun fact: Here in Romania, we actually do lock our houses at night to avoid getting robbed.

[@wamko8493]

Yeah I live in Australia I lock my door at night

[@kdominichoang]

Same in texas?

[@tomstradetable6940]

In America we always keep out doors locked .. or at least 90% of it

[@molcat_doma]

Not locking your door sounds mindblowing

[@carlosmagalhaes7109]

Here in Portugal, I lock my door at night too but I don't know if everyone does it.

[@ex0stasis72]

21:58 As an American and a fan of the Netherlands, I'm more concerned about income inequality than wealth inequality. The Dutch have high wealth inequality because they basically invented the stock market, so people who have been there for generations have had a longer time to slowly accumulate as much wealth as they have.

[@HappyBeezerStudios]

it all comes down to onions

[@James-ow3qt]

“Do I really think that people in the U.K. are smarter than people in France… of course I do.” 🤣

I disagree, if you’re so intelligent, why do you live in the UK ?

[@maskedgymnast9699]

@ Why not?

[@togerboy5396]

Cus it has some of the greatest universities in the world. What does France have? A tall rusty stick tower and I baguette

@@togerboy5396 we also have sarcasm

[@Jediben001]

@ your from Brittany, you get a free pass

[@ravinchowdhury5215]

Oldest countries: Germany, Japan, Italy and Austria. Coincidence? There’s no such thing

[@james.strong]

Axis countries oldest then. Allies can beat them as they’re younger.

[@ibx2cat]

Losing ww2 has a direct impact on the age of a nation, and winning WW2 makes a nation have more trees

[@bilibiliism]

apparently loosing ww2 makes a country better

[@12kenbutsuri]

My choldhood doctor used to say, the reason probably was because the bad genes were killed off during ww2 lol dunno if that's true.

[@sunnyjim1355]

😂 For one.... Germany and Italy weren't even a nation until the late 19th Century! 🤣 Oh man... I love channels such as this to hear people who have no clue about the world present themselves as numpties. 😂

[@UnderfundedScientist]

Most humans spawn in the green zone

[@acidicdragon1036]

xQc moment

[@asdzxcqwe6195]

@@acidicdragon1036 the juicer 😂😂

[@thetimewizard1720]

Unlucky, the better zones are more rare, this RNG is rigged

[@ShyamkishoreKumar]

After all, this is his second channel, and the word "spawn" apprears quite frequently in his first/primary channel xP

[@UnderfundedScientist]

@@ShyamkishoreKumar I just thought it sounded funny and was an interesting quote even more so if read without context

[@aleenaprasannan2146]

18:05 it's a really wrong assumption that vegetarianism is related to money. Yes, religion and just tradition is a legitimate reason, but money definitely is not. Infact there is a huge part of informal Indian economy from homestead based animal husbandry which a lot of low income population rely on and they grow their own chicken, goat and cow. Meat industry in India is extremely informal and largely not industrial at all. Sometimes carrots cost a lot more than eggs here, especially if you grow your own chicken. And people who are involved in fishing as also not high income either and their main protein source are fish. Also it would be interesting to see how the data for the IQ is collected, because neither me or anybody I know of have ever taken an IQ test? So were did that data come from?

[@ChiefJoey5971]

Ite iq data is wrong because no test has been conducted plus iq exams is not really a good thing to measure intelligence of the country. Plus westerners don't know u have about india plus all the wetern press bs.

[@mistersir7882]

yeah being poor just means less meat. if you ask a poor guy who has eaten meat only 2 times in the last year, he will still say he is a non-vegetarian. not affording meat does not make anybody vegetarian, it just reduces the consumption

[@HappyBeezerStudios]

I'm not vegetarian, I like some nice meat, but I see the issues with the huge industrialization of meat production. and I don't need to eat meat every day. So I simply less less of. And IQ tests are pretty much just a rough estimate. I did two in my youth, with quite different results.

[@utilizator500]

Last video: 9 maps that raise more questions than they answer. This video: 11 maps that raise more questions than they answer. Toycat did 9/11

[@bkgames2]

Damn

[@bkgames2]

And he is in New York right now

[@Nespire]

or 911

[@lexplains]

Ive learned more geography from these than in school… could be a call for help 😂

[@Liggliluff]

Please tell me more about 9th November; maybe that's a British thing?

[@james.strong]

17:35 I just eat fish and not meat which is why I call myself Peskaterrian. I dont get why people call themselves if they are vegitarrians if they eat fish.

[@AnimeReference]

Pescatarian. I imagine its a language / culture thing where meat doesn't imply fish at all.

[@anname2678]

Yes thank you!!!!!!

[@sunnyjim1355]

Fish is meat, duh!

[@james.strong]

@@sunnyjim1355 True. No one should be doubting that.

[@WhyItsMedora]

There are people who call themselves vegans and catch their own fish/raise their own animals/meat.

[@Parker307]

Fish are just like sea carrots swimming along, no one can argue with that

[@BatsBeyondStar]

fax no printers

[@Pyovali]

Sea is like a pond but bigger

[@sunnyjim1355]

It's the most stupid thing I've ever heard a Millennial say... and THAT's saying something.

[@The_Jazziest_Coffee]

@@sunnyjim1355 bruh

[@beategger5052]

the higher the sales tax the happier the country * cries in Switzerland's 7.7%

[@ibx2cat]

How do you have such a low VAT but still such high prices

[@joggie.]

I mean they don't gotta be happy when they're rich...

[@MrOoYT]

@@joggie. goldddddd

[@youriefavre9003]

@@ibx2cat Because our salaries are crazy high, one thing leads to the other and the final product costs you a kidney

[@finn950]

@@ibx2cat cause were rich 😎

[@BBanzaj]

22:23 why did you ignore the small dark green country called slovakia ?

[@kcl4678]

14:47 illegality of homosexuality has a very high correlation with the spread of islam. SO maybe its less population age or religion in general, it's just that islamic societies are very illiberal

[@polen2077]

It's called being conservative

[@artificialintel838]

@@abbaaabbbaaa Russia banned "propaganda" for homosexuality. They didn't make homosexuality illegal.

[@1sdani]

IDK, looks more like it has a correlation with Wahabbist Islam than Islam in general.

[@EA-js1me]

@@artificialintel838 True, but they should’ve made at least Chechnya brown. They were literally killing LGBT people under the direct command of Kadyrov.

[@Snp2024]

@@EA-js1me wtf

[@thelakeman2538]

That 18% sales tax rate for India is misleading, in reality there are many slabs under GST and it can range anywhere from 5%-28% (or even zero or negligible amount like 0.25%) and some products like more notoriously petroleum products are not even under the GST regime and instead the central and state governments levy cesses on them.

[@Luredreier]

23:05 No, how much they earn is irrelevant for their *wealth* equality or inequality. How much they *own* is however relevant. That's why countries like Sweden etc where people own houses that's super expensive are very unequal despite having low differences in actual *income* from their job. Basically it's hard to measure wealth.

[@mitchystuff]

and wealth doesnt mean happy, id be quite unhappy having a lot of money while some people are happy having a mansion. Im more happy living a simpeler life with less work and more free time for myself, works better for my mental health. Other people much rather work more to be happy cuz distraction or work is genuinely the most fun in their lives cuz of a fun job.

[@Luredreier]

@@mitchystuff My point was that he was saying things that his maps wheren't telling him. Scandinavian countries have less *income* inequality with lower wages for people who often earn a lot and higher wages for those that earn little then in other countries. But we have lower taxes on companies and on wealth (like property). And yes, we have a better work/life balance then most other nations with our trade unions often negotiating for more vacation time or higher pensions rather than higher wages.

[@ashtonkinser3689]

The data on wealth inequality for the Netherlands was a study that used data from 2015 when the economy was bad and 2019 when it was great which makes the wealth inequality divide worse

[@steved1984]

The IQ map is fundamentally flawed as ibx2Cat is massively skewing the UK average.

[@td9250]

11:45 Romania is where you find steel doors with three locks instead of wooden ones. Product of The Securitate and strong corruption.

[@dudeman1983]

6:20 note on his claim here; the median age, or the age of the exact middle data point on an oldest-to-youngest-person scale, indicates the age of the person with an equal number of people older than them as there are younger. While a smaller number could indicate, as Toycat says, that more people are being "spawned in", it can also be read that more people are having their "health bar reach zero" early in their lives--the difference of more young vs less old. He also mentions averages; averages are means, not medians, and are found by taking the sum of all data points and dividing it by the number of data points. While they are usually close to each other, it's an important distinction to make, since an extreme outlier--centenarians, in this case--can easily skew a mean while having a relatively smaller effect on a median, depending on the size of the data set.

[@finleypaul4520]

Agreed but ‘average’ can be used as a term to describe mean, median or modes etc. It’s a blanket term for all of them whilst being viable to use as a substitute for any of the individual terms themselves. So you can say that a median is the average, of a type of average, of a data set.

[@wta1518]

Wrong. Medians are averages, just like how hens and roosters are chickens.

[@HappyBeezerStudios]

Interestingly the marriage age correlates with the median age. And countries with high median age are noticeably safer while those with low median age are more dangerous to be in. Basically, if the country is a safe place to live in, people tend to die less from war, famine, insurgency, epidemics, etc, and take their time to find a partner.

[@gyderian9435]

I had to check that US sales tax thing bcs i remember having to pay them when i was there. apparently the federal rate is 0% because US states set their own rates. 4 states do have a 0% tho

[@TombaFanatic]

It can be kind of annoying. Some states will even let counties decide what the sales tax is. Go visit a friend an hour away and the sales tax goes up a percent

[@natesmith9007]

Thats why tax isn't included in the price of the item.

[@sickly300salt3]

@@natesmith9007 i feel like each state having a different tax is more reason to include tax in the price.

[@HappyBeezerStudios]

@@natesmith9007 digitization should fix that issue. Recently they replaced all price labels ad a local grocery store with digital ones to reduce paper waste. But that could also be expanded to allow locally adjusted prices with tax. Or even display both together.

[@adanactnomew7085]

13:31 uuhh, it doesn't matter what season it is people generally sleep at the same time

[@MilkJugA_]

IQ tests your logical/abstract/geometry skills. Maths is the language of logic, abstraction and geometry. People's IQ is also better than people from 100 years ago. There definitely is a correlation between education and IQ.

[@turritopsisrockola]

And also a correlation with better nutrition. Child malnutrition affects brain development immensely.

[@tankart3645]

Though I still don't understand how Sweden has a average IQ higer than Estonia.

[@sunnyjim1355]

"People's IQ is also better than people from 100 years ago. " 😂 No it isn't... It's been declining in the 'Western World' since that 100 years.

[@MilkJugA_]

@@sunnyjim1355 Let me rephrase a bit. The standardized testing 100-150 years ago was easier than it is today, as they get updated all the time.

[@w8stral]

Just no to people being smarter(ability to learn) than people 100 years ago. IQ is directly correlated to number of hours spent in school and if you grow up in 2 parent family with grandparents available to help teach outside of the classroom and instill discipline. USA's IQ from 100 years ago was higher than today. Difference? Children went to school for more hours and nearly everyone came from a 2 parent family even if your parents were fighting.

[@ryandoesstuffapparently1540]

Sea carrots killed me haha 🥕

[@asynchrony]

17:32 "You know, fish are just like little sea carrots" - ibxtoycat 2k21

[@cosmindvd]

I live in Romania, even tho is one of the safest countries on earth with most cities in top for safety, and I live in a safe region, where you can leave something on the road no one will steal it, we still lock our doors at night :))

[@krio1267]

e. well because of the blood sucker thas why

[@Yezpahr]

13:47 We can definitely have universal time zones, but they'd have to be horizontal time zones instead of vertical time zones. It's hard to grasp, but instead of 24 hours you'd use approximately 8760 hours. Night and day would just fall whenever it's time for night and day, regardless of your clock saying it's midnight (Because, newsflash, it already does that).

[@HappyBeezerStudios]

Those poor antarctic scientists, where the clock would stop for a couple months every year. And yes, when I lived in a different town it was quite annoying that it was about 8 1/2 minutes later there.

[@AA-xk8kx]

Yes religion and money plays a role in being vegetarian but its also because the food diversity. India makes the best vegetarian food and its just as tasty or even better than meat. So i guess pretty good for them as i want more and more people to be vegetarian its good for earth.

[@supanthabiswas5033]

No,that's unscientific ,balance diet is the best diet

[@misspat7555]

6:17 -"where humans are being spawned in", yeah, we usually spawn one at a time, but we can spawn rarely in groups of up to 8! rotfl

[@RRW359]

"I'm pretty sure they'll change that [0% sales tax] in the future" *Angry Oregonian Noises*

[@Koblac]

Turkmenistan: female homosexuality is legal ibx2cat: ayy me and you, same searches am i right- Me: hmmm....

[@koguma8823]

"it's legal to be gay; you can do it if you really want to" ??? being gay is not a choice dude

[@koguma8823]

@RJB yup

[@blanknight]

Capitalism inherently leads to wealth inequality, but it's one of the main reasons our standard of living is so high today. I would rather have a capitalist unequal society than the other options.

[@r3dpowel796]

Actually everyone in Myanmar is pretty much poor. So there is no inequalities.

[@carw8127]

@Scom Tott wtf why

[@pikachu5647]

youtuber: its amazing to see 95% of human awake at a point in time me: you underestimate my procrastination

[@Mr.Nichan]

Actually, I've seen a video debunking those wealth inequality figures and the video about the Netherlands being the most unequal country by Economics Explained. The crux of the the debunkers argument was that wealth estimates are very unreliable, which is why economists usually measure income.

[@189Blake]

21:24 As you clearly stated, these tests are made to test problem-solving skills, which can be learned. As a matter of fact, your IQ changes throughout your life, and if you were to test yourself every 10 years you would get a different result every time. The problem is that people often treat IQ as an innate number that you get from birth, meaning that you either are born smart or dumb. And they use it to justify racism as "Africa dumb, hence poor". But if Africa had as good schools as they have in Germany, with good teachers, infrastructure, internet, computers, laboratories, and no corrupt government, they would be doing as good as Europe in terms of IQ.

[@Henry-ih3jh]

Why don’t they have good schools though?

[@ananttiwari1337]

@@Henry-ih3jh poor

[@ananttiwari1337]

Exactly. Most olympiads have this whole section for identifying patterns and other logic questions. If it's your first time doing one, you're fucked lol

[@Henry-ih3jh]

@@ananttiwari1337 Education existed before currency was a thing.

[@joaopedrocruz6432]

Also different countries have different tests, for example Brazil has one for itself and the median is by definition 100.

[@abstract_duck]

Are we skipping over the fact that Slovakia is finally a chart leader in a category ...

[@mjamesknight]

So I looked into it and I don't know that Bhutan had a 50% sales tax. Articles from last year indicate that the country reformed to a flat 7% GST, and noted that the sales tax it was replacing taxed different goods at different rates. It also noted that certain goods were taxed higher (one document I read gave category numbers) alcohol with a sales tax of 100% and tobacco of 50% in the new system. There was likely some goods that were taxed at 50% in Bhutan at the point of sale under the old system (some are taxed at 100% now) but likely not all, and this tax rate reflects more of a sins tax then a sales tax.

[@manuelmartins1967]

You know, there's green lavish Europe and then there's the hellish dry landscapes of the Iberian Peninsula, and as an inhabitant of the Iberian Peninsula I can confirm that in the Summer everything is yellow in the countryside

[@HappyBeezerStudios]

Having been on vacation in Italy during summer, I can only imagine the dustiness over there.

[@Jack-496]

This video was released at 2am where I was, but when I woke up at 4am, hoping to go back to bed, I had no choice but to watch in my sleepy state. You have caused me much joy, and suffering.

[@ssj3gohan456]

"I have steak in the fridge, what are you going to do about it?" Well, for starters, we're going to pinpoint exactly where you are by the background in your last few videos, then go to your house and enter it while you sleep unobstructed because you don't lock your door at night. Then spit on your steak.

[@LUNE.44]

i love this comment

[@HappyBeezerStudios]

12:38 the population awake map is also well reflected in steam user charts. There is a big bump when Europe has evening, with a slightly smaller hump when evening is over the Americas. Oh, and timezones in the US have another interesting tick: Arizona doesn't observe DST, but the Navajo Nation, of which most is in Arizona does, but the Hopi Reservation, which is inside the Navajo Nation does not.

[@salahshinigamiamv9814]

5:36 yes it does to me... When you pay more taxes, you get free educational, medical services.. auto-satisfaction when it comes to food... And a higher salary rate (to actually pay those taxes) ... So basing it on their definition of happiness, it makes sense

[@alexkozliayev9902]

Just because you pay it doesn't mean you will get those services, or that they will be of quality

[@salahshinigamiamv9814]

@@alexkozliayev9902Taxes are a financial necessity for the country to even function, you can't expect someone to work for you if you don't pay him... The citizen is always provided by general services, education and medical attention were just examples (even though these too need to be financially supported)... There's street electrical lights, roads and various public establishments... That the citizen benefits from and use them on a daily basis, and like any other service/product they're not for free..he/she should pay their taxes. Note: to take the blame off the citizen he should pay Even the country doesn't provide the country party with the quality equivalent to the amount of taxes paid, then only the country would fault here for misusing those financial But if the citizen doesn't pay, he's to blame for not financially helping the system...

[@alexkozliayev9902]

@@salahshinigamiamv9814 I don't want to financially helpштп the system, i don't trust Yeah, i am russian btw

[@salahshinigamiamv9814]

@@alexkozliayev9902note: *You already pay taxes indirectly by buying both "private and public products" "online or offline"... study taxation (economy field/my field) to know more about it how it works and how the country takes the money from you (obligatory since they know thieves exists)* 1/ First option: leave the country and don't use any of its public services... (But you'll pay the taxes of another and when you get the plane) 2/ Second option : just get to the nearest police station and tell them "I'm not gonna pay taxes, I'm serious" 3/ keep stealing those products and wait for the police to get you... You don't live in a forest kid, wether USA/Russia/Morocco..ect those are countries that has laws..and you'll abide to them since you live there... My opinion : Russia is way better than USA, they're strict against those whom go against the law and don't tolerate everything or any group that comes out to change the social norms.. and that's better because if you're okay with everything, then laws are meaningless since you stand for nothing.

[@alexkozliayev9902]

@@salahshinigamiamv9814 damn, i wrote a response yesterday with some links, it probably was considered a spam and auto-deleted. I just listed there some typical happenings in Russia that you seem unaware about. Like lawmaker-gang leader that personally killed families and was active for a long time, google Sergei Tsapok. In general you sound like a kid that just finished Econ 101. I beg you to go beyond your government-approved textbooks and look into actual governmental projects, people who works in government, look into history of your and other countries. Like, research history of federal tax in US, or how mongols extorted taxes from russians after conquering us. I guess those who didn't like those mongol taxes are just filthy thiefs who should just go somewhere, where mongols can't get them or something.

[@99Stutz]

The problem with wealth inequality is not "jealousy" or that it "feels bad". The big problem, at least in my country the US, is the outsize influence the wealthy have. They contribute millions to political causes, they have access to (and ownership of, in many cases) the media, they have the means to hide their wealth and avoid paying taxes, they earn money via investing and owning rather than working (and their investments, like those in property, affect all of us), and the causes and institutions they choose to donate their money to are not subject to any oversight or public input, even though they also affect all of us.

[@99Stutz]

@@ShiningTitan And they have managed to convince a segment of the population that they are in fact smarter and better than the rest of us and thus deserve their wealth. Thanks for the reminder

[@lukascs.3265]

literally, from the looks of it you missed Slovakia at the end about the wealth inequality gini coeficient

[@magentialice]

In the US child marriage is still legal so that might be a part of why it's lower compared to other developed countries- and I do mean children-children not just older teenagers.

[@Xyronium]

9:35 USA is much more religious country than Europe is. People here are getting married much earlier for that reason. I don't know about Australia though...

[@Snp2024]

Most likely too busy fighting kangaroos and emu or other thousands of deadliest critter's

[@ryanager8029]

Of all the countries to have legalised homosexual activity, I was not expecting the DRC, one of the most authoritarian governments on the planet to have done so.

[@MidwestArtMan]

I thought the 7.5% sales tax in Minnesota was too high, but seeing double digits all over the world is insane. Also, 7.5% is still too high.

[@ToastieBRRRN]

That's luxury. I'd happily trade for 20%.

[@d2rat]

Can I ask u something

[@gbfj7683]

Move to Wisconsin, we have a 5% sales tax, and a good NFL team.

[@d2rat]

I forgor💀

[@frybanshee43]

Atleast most people in the west have high incomes so it is not so much of a issue but in lower income countries people really struggle

[@-haclong2366]

20:59 What is interesting is that those I.Q. scores don't correlate with national wealth at all, despite the fact that on a personal level a higher I.Q. often predicts higher lifetime incomes.

[@philipthesquid4979]

"Fish are just like little sea carrots" Ok

[@RadenWA]

Maybe sales tax is so high in Bhutan to make people not fall into consumerism and buy so much unnecessary things, be self-sufficient which leads to some kind of enlightened happiness? Idk

[@ryandoesstuffapparently1540]

I’m supposed to be sleeping instead of watching this. Going to do that now

[@thepopulationofkazakhstan1116]

Same

[@kartiksharma7674]

Basic reason India is mostly vegetarian is because the land is more fertile so growing food is more convenient. The habits down the centuries, become tradition. With a common religion, it easily becomes religious practice!

[@Bismarck-S]

On the third map, the one with average ages, there is the fourth oldest country in the world supposedly starting with the letters "Vin-", since the rest is covered by Toycat's face-cam. To my knowledge the is no such country, but if you know what it is, please tell me.

[@Dheinamar]

It’s Virgin Islands in case you haven’t found it yourself yet.

[@metehankanmaz8805]

@@Dheinamar It is not a country and even not a territory. It is splitted up to several parts.

[@Dheinamar]

@@metehankanmaz8805 yeah, I know

[@nasser307]

In Saudi Arabia, everyone is social with each other, and this creates safety and trust, even in the late hours of the night. You can sleep with the door open, or you can wander the street with your family 3:00 AM👍💚

[@enejidjsi5939]

Woah

[@andrewb0502]

Hello, first a compliment, then some advice / a question. Your videos a entertaining and informative. However, why do you persist in placing the box that features your smiling face at the bottom right of the screen? This almost always blocks or obscures Australia and New Zealand. If you instead placed your “box” in the bottom left corner, you would appear in an empty part of the south East pacific and obscure very little. I look forward to hearing your very logical explanation as to this artistic decision. Thanks, Andrew

[@adak]

6:25 and most of them are dying at the green zones

[@heesett]

21:01 Based and Brit-pilled

[@JennaGetsCreative]

In case you're curious how your audience compares to those stats, hi! Canadian, 33, first (current) marriage at 29, 1 child coincidentally also at 29, we did not get married because of pregnancy. Edit to comment: Your timezone map doesn't show Newfoundland having its own timezone. We do! UTC-2:30 Edit 2: Okay now I'm seeing the island of Newfoundland itself is a different colour, which indicates the timezone, but Labrador is not. The mainland portion of this province, Labrador, is split between Atlantic and Newfoundland timezones.

[@divingdave2945]

Well, there is an obvious correlation between IQ and how well a country is situated, but that doesn't tell you which factor is causal and which results from the other.

[@12kenbutsuri]

What about China?

[@bullsheets6151]

I can tell you Americans would not give up meat even if alternatives were better. Meat is manly. We wouldn’t give up our pride for the greater good

[@BaderHashmeh]

14:47 I'm proud that the country i live in (Jordan) is the only Arab country in the middle east that you can be gay in 😂

[@arposkraft3616]

You might like to know that European fast growing pulp wood is planted at 1.25 per cut, meaning that over the last decade europe has planted a forrest the size of Switzerland extra , forrestry can be done in an extremely durable way

[@stevenhale2935]

Yeah but what trees are these?

[@LinkStorm13]

21:45 If Belians are so smart, why are they living in belgium. Checkmate 🤣

[@krisinsaigon]

Britain doesn't have a federal sales tax, it has VAT. the difference is that VAT is only supposed to be on non essential items, on luxury goods, so we pay tax when we buy a car or an iphone, but we don't pay that when we buy bread or soap etc. Whereas other countries have taxes on all sales

[@braydencoversbeatles4029]

I was so surprised to see that my country’s average age is 41 until I realized that it wasn’t the average, it was median. So basically it’s just life expectancy divided by 2.

[@lorenzocaliri]

5:00 btw in Europe that's the max of taxes we got to pay (in Italy there 3 levels of percentage starting from 4% to 10 to 22 based on how a product is necessary to your life,example: bread is at 4%,buying a pizza at restaurant 10,buying a TV 22%

[@monotonehell]

"The problem with this gif...is they made the mistake of not realizing southern hemisphere has different daylight hours.." Ummmm what? Different season times yes, different daylight hours, well shorter days when northern hemisphere has longer days and so on, but that doesn't make much difference to when you go to sleep.

[@mayrln]

in june the southern hemisphere has less daylight hours than the northern because its winter in the south. both hemispheres experience same daylight hours in early september and early march.

[@monotonehell]

@@mayrln that's what I said, what's your point? 🤔😊

[@melovekittie]

@@monotonehell That those are… different daylight hours??? What are you confused about lmao

[@monotonehell]

@@melovekittie Andrew said "The problem with this gif...is they made the mistake of not realizing southern hemisphere has different daylight hours.." In the context of the gif, where you are North to South makes no difference where the dawn/dusk line is. Therefore his criticism is moot. (Also in our contemporary World, the times people go to bed and wake up tend to be the same all year, not really linked with the changes of the dawn/dusk times over the year.)

[@VodkaSelekta]

Winter is actually just a conspiracy made up by the sun so it can get off of work early.

[@fabio5286]

about the trustworthy thing, for me as a brazillian legit got surprised when i grew up that people from north countrys trust each other so much, when we are being raised we are teached to be careful and never trust a stranger (mainly because robberys are so common) so that has a snowball effect and thats why we dont trust each other (i believe that affects marriage data too)

[@HappyBeezerStudios]

It all comes down to metal. If you look at things like the democracy index, freedom of press index, happiness index, etc and compare it to the density of metal bands per capita there is a clear correlation.

[@ЯрославКовальчук-и9ь]

"90+ ofmost european countries is just forest" - yeah, great research, well done

[@grawl69]

interpersonal trust is VERY strongly correlated with several other factors: - national self-esteem - feeling that the country as a whole is on a good track - internal security, obviously - strength of divisions in the matters of politics (inversely) The map is quite out-of-date by 2021.

[@ryanhowser5908]

The Federal Sales Tax map's title is quite misleading and very American centric. In the US we call the central nationwide government the "Federal government", but that is only because our government is set up in a Federal system. Many of the countries of the world however do not have Federal governments, like France for example is a unitary government I believe. That map should really be titled National Sales Taxes or something to that effect.

[@ibx2cat]

This comment is very US centric, there are dozens of federations around the world that exist outside of your continent

[@snapsky69]

21:44 what do you say about belgium

[@everythinghere1982]

Many people in India can't afford meat. What a joke 🤣🤣🤣🤣when meat is cheaper than many vegetables 🤣🤣

[@ibx2cat]

Idk what supermarkets you go to where meat is cheaper than vegetables lol

[@manka_]

@@ibx2cat The meat consumption level is mostly due to most of the cuisine being vegetarian rather than not being able to afford it

[@bwiebertram]

@@ibx2cat the trashcan

[@anshul6168]

@@ibx2cat Meat is almost same price as vegetables. Dont forget India is a meat exporter as we grow far more meat than we consume Fish is even cheaper

[@santhoshanvelmurugan3324]

@@ibx2cat it is not about money but our culture to eat one or two time a meat in a week which is good for health. That's why obesity rate is so high in Western countries .

[@agatamoreira9861]

Here in brazil when we are in a good money situation normality we make barbecues in most of the weekends, and bbq here is very different then the USA bbq, we put a good amount of different meats in the grill and eat more or so since 12:00 to 16:00.

[@hkrohn]

Fun (but true) fact: Bhutan is not one of the happiest countries on Earth; they only claim to be so. In the 2018 Gross National Happiness Index, they ranked number 97. The last years they have simply opted out of the whole survey.

[@equaius893]

97 as in 97% happiness gotcha there

[@anshul6168]

They ranked low coz of methodology

[@0xCAFEF00D]

19:40 That breakpoint at 100 is so deceptive. It's just showing a bigger difference than there really is.

[@tigercomet23]

Yeah they should totally have a 95-105 category, to show that the country is “average”

[@leonpb1409]

The IQ map is flawed.

[@adak]

21:57 How is Slovakia dark green? I doesn't look like it's equal here

[@baskoning9896]

Young correlates with not wanting homosexuality.. Totally ignores that the map of islam and the map of hating gays is EXACTLY the same map.

[@ibx2cat]

Definitely youth, definitely not that region of the world and the strong religious based laws they have, nope

[@ericvulgate]

this will always be your first channel to me, bro.

[@epicmatter3512]

We don’t have “free”(federal) healthcare in the US because we have lower taxes.

[@epicmatter3512]

Very specifically no federal sales tax

[@banchnotok]

Health care is not tax paid. It's paid by public health insurance.

[@epicmatter3512]

@@banchnotok And that insurance is payed for with what?

[@epicmatter3512]

To pay for “free” healthcare you either need to print money or pay taxes.

[@epicmatter3512]

Inflation is just taxation without legislation!

[@DavidSolimano]

All this time we could have been walking into Toycat's unlocked door, now it's too late, RIP.

[@brianlong2334]

It's actually not 100% accurate to say meat is more wasteful It's true if you just look at basics, but something like 80% of the food we grow we literally can't eat most is a waste product that can't be consumed by humans..... So feeding it to animals makes sense, not to mention you are not going to turn a hilly/rocky grass land that's good for sheep as an example say in Scotland to grow rice....

[@servvo]

"Fish are just little sea carrots, swimming along, doing their own thing" - Toycat 2021

[@alexandert6489]

from a canadian farmer it can be easier feeding cattle than growing crops. also you need more land to grow crops than cattle (cattle is like 2 ac/cow and 1 acre can be forest grazing land for a large chest freezer of meat to bread or wheat which requires more). in fact going off of urban sprawl and food insecurity we should be growing more meat and heading towards a good mix diet as no only as we are omnivores (eat plants and meat) but for reasons i have stated (can raise more meat on an acre than crops)

[@dramakun4931]

In India vegetarian thing is neither a religious thing nor financial South india Consume more safe food While the northern States consume more vegetables The main reason is demography But still tend to 40% of people don't eat meat because of religious purposes which is drastically incrrasing in India

[@adityamore9435]

Well, in India it's not about money that they don't eat meat that much, neither it is about the religious beliefs I would say as many hindus eat meat, its been way of life since thousands of years. We knew what is the most sustainable living is and will always be.

[@Dasim6786]

Would love to have links to these in the description! Fun channel

[@TheXB]

"Fish are like little sea carrots going along and doing their own thing" - toycat 17:33

[@j.s.7335]

7:26 Such an excellent point you've made about the interests of low median age countries being different than high median age ones.

[@gdmusician8708]

Fun fact: it's bright in his studio cause he probably has lots of windows open in the studio, it gets super hot in the UK in summer, and it does it really quickly (or atleast from where I am in England)

[@james.strong]

It gets 40C in America and is to warm. Theres a reason they cant bare 50C in Canada. While in Britian you can expect 30C depending where you live. Itnis because Britian is on average 53 degreese North when America is a lot lower. There only exception is Alaska of course.

[@gdmusician8708]

@j new you really didnt realise that I did say summer.

[@aydan0161]

Fun fact: grass is green and water is wet

[@aydan0161]

@j new water IS wet and grass can be green. Nothing false here except your ability to correct people

[@aydan0161]

@j new semantics isn’t exactly a good argument. Just makes you look like a childish twat who splits hairs lol. Water is *absolutely* wet, and the grass outside is all green baby.

[@Asdasxel]

It's not actually Federal Sales Tax in most of these countries as not all countries are federations.

[@detto1998]

Hey ibx2cat! Do you play geocaching? It always makes me discover new places.

[@gj1234567899999]

-They filmed the plains and desert looking areas of Conan the barbarian in Spain. - The average age in China is high even though marriage rates are young because of the one child policy- older people are a higher percentage of the population. - Some US states don’t even have sales tax. -in terms of meat eating - some places grazing is the best land use since the land can support some grass but it doesn’t rain often and soil is poor. In terms of growing corn for feed instead of consumption, farms are geared towards the market. If your goal was max population of your country corn feed might be wasteful, but in most developed countries populations are actually flat or going negative, while incomes are increasing so making more near makes sense. Where you have true food insecurity these days is like Saharan Africa, but it’s not the job of the rest of the world to feed Africa.