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.
This is the boardgame version of the Steve Buscemi firefighter fact lol
Did you know that in that scene in that movie were the guy kicked that thing he actually broke his toe?
Aragorn really deflected that knife.
Did you know that before chewbaca was cast in star wars, he was a lab test consultant for Loreal
Did you know that before Peter Mayhew was cast as Chewbaca in Star Wars
FTFY
I refuse to acknowledge this fact and will keep believing a Wookie worked at L'oreal. Makes sense if you think about it.
It's a fascinating story that's worth a deeper dive if you're interested.
I mean yeah it was during the 9/11 too!
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.
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/
Quantitative easing
Nah, that's just plain old overnight loans.
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.
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?
One of the canon rules is you can't skip a property sale.
If a player lands on a property, they earn the right to buy it at cost, or start an auction.
If they don't have the money to buy it, they can only auction.
Other players can buy the property you landed on
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.
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.
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.
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.
Boardwalk and Park Place, and yes it eventually comes down to whoever lands on one of those first that doesn't own it. They probably lose first.
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.
Printer goes brrr
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
REVOLUTION! Flips the board
This should never ever happen unless no one buys anything and everyone spends weeks circling the board. However, income tax undoes about a fifth of all go-passes.
I've been told here on Lemmy that all the US needs to do is print more money.
Turns out that guy was right! He must work at The Fed or at least be a banker or something.
I'm sorry for doubting your claims
This the type of shit that he'd name "The Trump Dollar"
Given that "the bank" owns every asset in the board and only pays out a piddly $200 every turn, normal play should pretty much never result in them running out of money.
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.
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