This is the boardgame version of the Steve Buscemi firefighter fact lol

It was meant to illustrate the dangers of unchecked capitalism.

I mean, yeah, but also no. It was anti-land lord and was advocating Georgism and a land value tax. Georgism includes corporations as victims to land lord hoarding and doesn't criticize capitalism, per se.

Her Name was Lizzie Magie and this quote from her holds up:

"In a short time, I hope a very short time, men and women will discover that they are poor because Carnegie and Rockefeller, maybe, have more than they know what to do with. My people believe that the only way to help working girls is to get rich and give something to the poor. That is just the way not to do it. Working girls want only what they produce. If they get that they will have all they need. They can have silk underwear then."

And the original board was waaaay larger than what we have today EDIT: what happened to lemmy world servers? my comment was registered very quickly

We should make a game based on Monopoly, that gives players options to destroy the system; unionize, give their money to charity (and get more for good appearances), lobby for higher tax rates, etc.

Nah, that's just plain old overnight loans.

The reason people hate it is because they don’t follow the rules.

They put tax money in the center and pretend “free parking” means “payday”.

They prevent purchases until a lap or two around the board.

They allow landed-on properties to go unpurchased.

They allow no-rent agreements between players.

And then they have the audacity to bitch that the game takes too fucking long. After removing every god damn mechanism the game has to end.

There is strategy in knowing what to purchase, what to bid at auctions, what properties to develop and when and how much, and what to trade.

It was literally designed to be a metaphor for capitalism. You’re not supposed to enjoy playing unless you are lucky enough to be the one winning.

There is some strategy you’re not thinking of. Too much to go into in one comment. I just played a full 6 hour game with a 9 year old and a 6 year old, both with ADHD, and they didn’t wander off once. The game has its charms.

Its an RNG fest.

My wife had dominated rolls. Buying multiple properties. Other players got some, but more of our rolls were railroads, and chance spots. Everyone was bleeding dry. So I finally got the peasants to unite. We had 3 other players basically form a company and rallied to take down the empire. By that time though, it was too late.

If she had one or two rolls into our meager hotels, maybe things could have turned but never happened. We hit one or two of her properties and that was the final nail. We couldn't recover.

The game is pure RNG and don't let anyone tell you it isnt. You can maybe talk and deal your way to victory if someone doesn't understand the game, but if everyone is seasoned. It's who lands on the most properties to chain.

Don't forget molesting women and funding genocides

yeah but if nobody gets a monopoly and there's like max players just circling the board, there isnt anything to pull money out of the player wallets and back into the bank once properties have sold.