Comments by "Me Here" (@mehere8038) on "Why Bellerby Globes Are So Expensive | So Expensive | Insider Business" video.

presumably to get a job for a company like this, you'd be contacting them & asking if you could visit them cause of what a fan you are & offering to volunteer or just wanting to visit lots & sending them you're CV & samples of your own attempts at home for years before actually getting a job. Worker would seek them out, not the other way around
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@Globemakers fascinating info. None of it surprises me though, other than the 22cm being the biggest seller, I would have thought around 30-40cms/whatever you sell closest to that in size would be the biggest seller, small enough to not be a problem to display/store, but big enough to be really able to use & see all the details on with relative ease compared to the smaller size. There would be a HUGE muscle memory variation between those sizes! While I'd love doing a job with such precision, not sure I could handle mastering it, then losing the skill, then going through the whole process to relearn it again, I'd be too frustrated with myself, remembering how easy it used to be & realising how much work was ahead of me to get back to there. Is it possible to retain muscle memory for multiple sizes simultaneously & if so, for how many different sizes at once? Can anyone make all sized globes at the same time? I'm guessing probably no, but the workers would have to be so dedicated & passionate about what they do that maybe it would be possible because of that. Anyway, thanks for your reply, that's awesome to actually hear from the person the video's about on this, really appreciate it, so interesting :)
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This is the way society is going & HAS to go as automation increases. Without stuff like this, what are we going to be doing in the future? As traditional jobs get taken over by machines, this is where we'll go as a society so as to feel & be fulfilled
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@Globemakers not all of them leave countries out, I've seen some where the same country appears twice too lol
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@Globemakers I actually find it interesting that the smallest size is easiest, I thought small would probably be harder & the medium small would be easier, kinda giving more hand movement space & less bend in the globe. The super large looks like a nightmare to try to get right though!
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but what makes something "the best"? I mean this one's a perfect sphere, the earth is not, would the best for you be one that wasn't a perfect sphere but instead matched the earth's shape more accurately but required various counterweights to actually spin in earth's gravity? How do you define "the best"?
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good luck finding a new island in today's super satellite scanned world lol Mother Nature can of course mess with people who bought them though, such as with the Tongan volcano changing what is actually above sea level in that part of the world :)
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affordable compared to what? In the past a fridge cost 3-6 months wages, so globes were probably affordable compared to that, but that doesn't mean they were "cheap" compared to today's prices
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@Dusk.EighthLegion thing I find interesting about the perfect sphere is that the earth is not lol
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@d3tuned378 of course, but it's just funny when they're taking such lengths to be SO accurate in other details, but are in fact choosing to make the shape inaccurate :) I mean I think it's obvious why they're doing it, but it's still kinda funny that they're so accurate on other stuff but deliberately not on this
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@Globemakers yeh, I was like wtf? I've seen it at least once, some countries were bigger than they should have been/had extra points on them due to the doubling up & then some islands below them appeared twice lol. I was just looking for a cheap globe cause I just wanted to see what was opposite what, so really didn't feel I needed quality for that, but what I got was pretty messed up, so I looked again to buy again (just on ebay) & took more notice of the pictures next time round & it was pretty funny what some of them showed! I've got a tennis ball sized foam globe, with the join on what's supposed to be the equator. Malaysia directly connects to Borneo & Peru has an ocean directly to it's north, so that's interesting lol Some of the longitude lines line up at the equator, others can be as much as half way between where the lines ended in the other hemisphere. The equator clearly doesn't go around the middle either, higher or lower, depending on what side of the globe. It makes quite a good back massager though, useless as a globe, but good for that :)
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@antonvink If I was making it, I'd actually want to hand cut before joining, would kinda make me feel like I had more control over it & the cutting would also be giving me focusing time & time to really take in the details along the edge of the joins, so when I was then joining 2 pieces, I'd just kinda feel in tune with them & their edges & find it easier to get the lining up right
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@Globemakers great info, again thanks for taking the time to share, I really appreciate it :) & I'm kinda laughing about people wanting one size but being gifted a different one. Kinda how the world works I guess isn't it. I'm sure the recipients appreciate just having such a high quality globe of any size but kinda a shame they can't somehow get the option to put in some extra money of their own & get a size they'd prefer or something, rather than having a smaller one, but smaller one would still be great I guess, I mean I'd much rather a smaller one than none at all! Just kinda funny that the buyers must know that they personally would choose the larger size, but still choose to skimp & buy the smaller size to gift
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@-Acitone yeh, through channels like this one, I've learnt how much hard work goes into making things I used to think were largely made via automation. There is definite variations in how much people are paid for this sort of work around the world & also huge variation in working conditions. This imo is what those conditions & pay should look like though & personally, I would be much happier to pay high prices for a product like this than for one where I know the middle man is profiting & the artists aren't being properly paid or treated, so that's a factor too, they get that "fair trade" type label to add to their value in addition to the quality & also warranty, that it will be perfect & in the rare case it's not, service will be outstanding in fixing it, plus customer service will be fluent in the language & culture of the customers, which again is an additional factor people are willing to pay for. I've just switched internet companies to one that charges $10 per month more than my old one, but they have a local call centre for problems, so there's the peace of mind that if something goes wrong, I will be able to speak to someone without language or cultural barriers & get it fixed fast & easily, so that's worth $10 per month extra to me
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I'd actually love a job like working on these - except for the painting, I couldn't handle the stress of trying to get the painting right, knowing if I screwed up, all the earlier people's work was lost too, but I'd love to be trying to cut & paste at such precision, my kind of thing :)
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