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[-] Seigest@lemmy.ca 112 points 3 months ago

It's a game of monopoly and we're all losing.

[-] eatCasserole@lemmy.world 37 points 3 months ago

✨capitalism✨

[-] lol_idk@lemmy.ml 12 points 3 months ago* (last edited 1 hour ago)
[-] Seigest@lemmy.ca 18 points 3 months ago

We should have our wealthy play hungry hungry hippos. As in we toss them into a marsh with 4 hungry hippos.

[-] ArbiterXero@lemmy.world 9 points 3 months ago

If you’re playing monopoly, isn’t everyone a loser? 😝

[-] satanmat@lemmy.world 15 points 3 months ago

Sigh. I hate myself.

— Actually yes! That was the point of the original game.

the landlords game

[-] dgmib@lemmy.world 1 points 3 months ago

What blows my mind 🤯

The landlords game has two different sets of rules you could play with. One set of rules was basically the same as the Monopoly we know today. When the game ends when one player acquires ownership of everything and bankrupts everyone else.

The other set of rules, called “prosperity”, involved a tax that redistributed wealth. The game ends when all players have doubled their original stake and everyone wins.

The game was intended to show how unbridled capitalism ultimately leads to a few billionaires owning everything and everyone else being poor/bankrupt. (Sound familiar?)

And compared it to the prosperity rules which were based on Georgism, a kind of socialism/capitalism hybrid that both rewards people for the value they produce while also creating surplus public revenue that can be used to create social safety nets.

[-] merc@sh.itjust.works 4 points 3 months ago

Which is what the game of monopoly was designed to teach.

[-] jerkface@lemmy.ca 2 points 3 months ago
[-] zqwzzle@lemmy.ca 1 points 3 months ago

Oligopoly actually.

this post was submitted on 07 Aug 2024
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