I haven't watched this particular video, but it's worth pointing out that the channel (Kurzgesagt) is funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation (and possibly some part of the German government, IIRC, but I can't find a source for it right now), so be wary of any political content like their video on climate change
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Kurzgesagt gets funding from the German public broadcasters ARD and ZDF. Their financing model is a little weird but they are in practice state media. German liberals love to claim that they're not state media as their money doesn't come from the government but a separate household broadcasting fee.
In looking that up I found mostly German media articles referencing the partnership (it looks like it's primarily to support the production of German language content). There's also a bunch of far-right German libertarian type conspiracy blogs raving about how these videos are all lies.