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This is called quantitative easing, it was started by obama
Printer goes brrr
REVOLUTION! Flips the board
In typical fashion, Henry George wasn't even invited.
Does anyone actually like Monopoly? It is the worst board game in existence.
To me, it's not even a game, because players don't make any decisions. You roll a die and go a number of steps, no player agency so far. After that you technically have a decision to buy or not to buy the property. But it is not really a decision, you need to buy it, if you can afford it.
I believe the main reason people say that they don't like board games is because the only board game they played is Monopoly.
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.
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.
100% agree. My family always played strict rules, and the game was always a painful slog. Constant mortgaging properties to afford rent somewhere else, a whole game hanging on $11 here and there. The game I played in a mobile home during power outages was about living paycheck to paycheck.
The first time I saw people do the free parking tax money thing, I thought they were joking. The fuck kind of soft baby game is this? Two times around the board first? Why? Just give $600 more to start, idiots. Why not let the car roll 3 dice or some shit because a car goes faster than an iron?
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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.
Its actually a pretty good metaphor. Imagine playing the game and never buying any assets, just passing Go and collecting a paycheck. That's how most people live their lives. If you live in a capitalist country, you either aquire assets, or accept you will be exploited by those with all the assets. Its a simple and horrible system, and its all right there in a 100 year old kids game.
The main difference being that most people never have an opportunity to buy assets because they are too busy paying rent on other people’s assets. The game assumes you are a capitalist already, and you are playing against other capitalists.
Which actually is an even better metaphor, regular people don’t even get to play the game.
Lol we actually used to play this way with my cousins. We had two younger cousins that weren't too bright at the time, but really wanted to play. So they played as "peons" and got a pawn from a chess set as their marker. They got an extra $100 for passing go, but that's it. They couldn't buy or anything, only pay. They actually seemed to have fun in a little competition between themselves as to who could weather the capitalist hell hole the best.
I had almost exactly the same exact comment written out before I saw yours. Its original title was “The Landlord’s Game”.
That was a different game, the original by Liz Magie. Darrow pretended he never heard of it, plagiarised it, but made it worse, then claimed it was his own idea. It all got settled later on.
And, really, the winner will almost certainly be determined by who owns the middle-priced properties. I'm too lazy to look them up, but it's the ones that are essentially opposite the Go space on the board. It's a fascinating commentary.
It's the red ones, they're about 14 spaces away from jail, which is the most common space to end up on. In the long run people will land on them most often.
There's one really popular red spot, but the three orange ones are also frequently hit, according to this analysis.
Basically, to survive, you need to make sure no one gets a monopoly of the orange or red ones. Which really brings us back to the point of the original game...lol
Yeah. that's the analysis I was thinking of, I just misremembered the conclusion.
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I remember my friend told me the rule of purchasing property is that once you landed in a property no one owned, you either buy it or be auction off to other player, and then the game end when every property are being purchased, so each player objective is basically get as much property as possible, negotiating with other players for their property so you can own a row of land for upgrading. The game become a slog when people just don't get property, don't negotiate, and playing it safe.
It's like when playing DOTA and two team decided to just farm critter for gold instead of attempting to reach the objective respectively. It's called Monopoly, not Money Hoardy
Monopoly was originally called "The Landlord's Game" and it was invented by a woman in 1903.
It was meant to illustrate the dangers of unchecked capitalism.
Then it was stolen by a man and turned into the game we know today.
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.
Let's call it "Prosperity"!
One early version was like that, it was called "The Prosperity Game" and gave players the ability to vote to change the economics of the board from "The Hoarder Era" to "The Prosperity Era." https://prosperitygame.org/
You should look up the versions No Rolls Barred did on youtube. They get very silly with it.
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."
This is the boardgame version of the Steve Buscemi firefighter fact lol
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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.
One change for the better at a time
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Or just do it trump style and steal it from everyone while raping children.
Don't forget molesting women and funding genocides
Also don’t forget the eating of people
To be fair those guys are not exactly crying right now.
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