Monopoly, the game that was originally designed to show that capitalism doesn’t work 😆🙉
It’s about landlordism specifically, not capitalism. Used to be called “The Landlord’s Game”.
Works for one
I absolutely despise the game, so there’s two of us.
It’s one of the earliest recorded examples of selling an artsy game that is meant to be unfun.
It’s honestly a really bad game to play. You either give in a little bit by trading at loss or you make everyone want to stop playing because there’s just no way to win and there’s absolutely no reason to play any further.
Great for making kids fight, though.
i mean yeah, that’s the point. The whole game was designed as a micro-cosm of capitalism. We’re in the endgame of monopoly right now, the richest players are buying out the entire board and it’s not fun for anyone else anymore. Only in the real world we can’t walk away from the table when the obvious winner insists they need to finish the game
I wonder how a progressive tax on all income would change the game. Maybe divided between the participants or used however the participants voted. Winning mechanism would probably need to be changed to something other than whoever piles up the most cash and property.
I suspect the game would just never end and properties would change hands again and again.
Progressive taxation is a negative feedback that creates a tendency toward an equilibrium.
Winner-take-all rules (as currently played) are positive feedbacks that lead to runaway effects, like me flipping over the board and setting up the slip and slide as a more pro-social activity.
I get them meme and all but I’ve become MORE progressive as I’ve become wealthier. It opened my eyes to how rigged the system is.
My first speeding ticket happened during college. I had to take a few weeks driving course, cut luxuries out of my life for a month, and pick up extra shifts at my job for a month to handle it. It was an overall miserable experience.
My next speeding ticket happened while I was an engineer. I literally paid it off on my phone while the officer was doing paperwork on the side of the road AND gave them an extra $100 because I could do that instead of any kind of driving course. I stopped caring about it at all 10 minutes later. It was fucking wild to see “laws are only for the poors” in action like that
Perfect real world example
same here, and I’m hardly wealthy. true middle class.
board games though? I’m gonna do my best to crush you
The pacifism and anti-imperialism leaving my body the moment I build the first nuke in my Civ game.
Ghandi? 🧐
I hate that the trick to dominating any civ game is to be hyper aggressive. For whatever reason they can’t get the AI to be the slightest bit competent.
Even if in the game it feels good to be rich parasite.
I suck at Scrabble. Not because I’m bad at words but because I’m always looking for the plays that will collectively give everyone at the table the best chance to make interesting plays.
Catan, though? I’m gonna block a sucker’s road and steal that grain, no hesitation.
Rich rappers like 50 cent
This is the my problem with Marvel Snap, which has a (simplified) betting system like poker (a player can retreat — fold — at any time.)
So when my opponent is doing their thing and I realize I’m going to sweep the board, I feel sympathetic and dont snap (raise)… even if they snap, in which case I know they’re happier losing four cubes than eight.
Gloves go off when they use Goblins, Ice Man or Scorpion, which attack my turf directly, and I get pissy when they Juggernaut or Leader at the wrong time, and an ancient, long trained master of MtG (sober, now) my synergy combos are atypical and catch rivals often by surprise.
Oh, in full disclosure, I’m playing for free, even though each paid season nudges the power curve forward slightly (making it a teensy bit pay-to-win.) I’m poor and when I say I’m a sober MtG player, it’s because I was a total addict and miss it like Bilbo misses the One Ring.
The orange always brings out the worst in one
Looks like someone wrote a pretty recent dissertation on the subject
The Downside of Wealth: Toward a Psychopathology of Money Accumulation, Noah Laracy. The Chicago School of Professional Psychology, 2017
For a summary of a summary wealthy people have better health and quality of life, which shouldn’t surprise anyone due to the food, housing, access to healthcare, etc security money buys currently, and when controlling for age (comparing like aged individuals instead of only looking at wealth) paranoia increases with wealth.
Full text https://www.proquest.com/openview/4e788e9e34bca1073784da0d0c99705e/1?pq-origsite=gscholar&cbl=18750
