Victoria 3 Standard of Living Tutorial

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0:00 Intro
0:50 Explaining Standard of Living
3:49 Why SoL is Good
9:51 Taxes - Increasing SoL
18:42 Trade - Increasing SoL
20:04 Ownership - Increasing SoL
23:11 Wages & Workforce - Increasing SoL
30:27 Healthcare & Running Out of Labor

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Strategy Games, Victoria 3, Interest Groups, Economics, Production Methods, Colonization, Playing Tall, Landowners, Industrialists, Armed Forces, Intelligentsia, Carthage, Hannibal Barca, Suez Canal, Ottoman Empire, France, Russia, Universities, Canning, Arms Manufacturing, Quinine, Malaria, Rifling, Tooling Industry, Clippers, Small Arms, Cannons, Timber, Iron, Soft Wood, Hard Wood, Migration, Encouraging Migration, Customs Union, North Africa, Multiculturalism, Mercantilism, Oligopoly, Hannibal Barca, Colonization, Greener Pastures Edict, Maps, Resources, Japan, Nippon, Shogunate, Automation, Revolution, Civil War

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[LarryPounder]

Hide your kids before 7:20. You'll thank me later.

[pelayla]

cried tears of joy when generalist explained the difference between wealth and standard of living...

[gonshi]

Kinda weird request: How to wage 'economic war' so to speak. Basically how and why expand your market, how to downscale the market of enemies, when to go out of your way to export at a cheaper price or import even at higher prices... that kind of things. Probably half of it is in earlier tutorials and the other half may be on the works tho, but you get the idea

[DrDoof]

Dude these videos are absolutely amazing! I just picked up this game and so far maintaining the economy hasn't been too much of a struggle, but understanding SoL, productivity, and learning what buildings to expand and why, what materials go where, and all that micro stuff has been confusing. These videos have been a savior!

[Destragond]

I tried to do the egalitarian society goal as Portugal recently, but kinda got stuck at SoL 17, while the goal is 20. I was hoping that having a variety of profitable, available jobs would drive up the wages, but it didn't seem to happen much, like you said.
Maybe the problem was that multiculturalism just brought way too many new people into the country, which then reduced literacy and probably also SoL. I might have not passed closed borders fast enough.
Or I guess I just haven't activated enough labor-saving PMs.
Oh, I just noticed I have private health insurance instead of public. That would probably be a big jump.

"Souls are the most important resource." I think you meant "hands". Not like you care if your workers have a soul or not.

[KayKusoden]

Thanks for the great explanation! Can you please do a run without colonization and only conquer the places that would make sense for that nation you play. Trying to get the best SoL possible while going for the nations interests.

[lnclt]

I have yet to understand what I like more between playing Victoria and learning how to play it by watching your videos 🎉

[ilayohana]

This whole part of Victoria III should be pretty obvious to all Victoria three players who went outside and gotten a job (so about 12 people)

[Mike__Finger]

I would really like a detailed look into qualifications and pop promotion.

[CapEm]

Please re-release this video with a "standard of living" counter in the bottom corner that tallies up how often "standard of living" is mentioned. 😉

[connorthomas]

your country can easily increases its standard of living to 20+ with basic tech improvements and construction

[JinterzGarage]

Just found you channel and really enjoying it so far, thanks for tackling the tutorials that bigger pdx youtubers avoid ❤

[sureee_kidsure]

At 7:43, you did not warn about the spr*adsheet you were about to show. Luckily, I sensed that something not safe for work was about to appear and shooed everyone under 18 from my room. But I am still appalled by your irresponsibility in not warning about the appearance of such a mature thing.

[alexgmcm]

Can you please make a video about playing smaller/backward nations? I always get stuck in a debt spiral. I'll check out your Korea playthrough too as maybe that already explains it!

[johnwalkiethepleb]

Great video as always! Thanks to you i really get to enjoy victoria more ^^

[Trotsky.-._years_ago_-_and]

what about the workforce protection law? At max level I believe it sets minimum wages at 200%. But I don't know if its worth it as it could reduce the profitability of the building. Is it better to go for the 200% minimum wage and the worker protections or just the worker protections by itself.

[tutugry]

Excellent tutorial. But i have an challenge: try to get the best SoL in the world as China. Extra points if its at least 1/3 more than second place

[sasi]

0:41 you might scare the communists with that train of thought.

[master]

"Help GG's SoL by like, commenting and subscribing and hit that bell button." Missed opportunity

[DrillTheThirdHole]

Where tf did the beard go? -30 legitimacy!