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Monopoly started out to show that capitalism is based on luck and opportunity, and that the end result is one person owning everything.
The whole process is miserable and even when you win you have to sit thru a prolonged ending where you slowly drain every last resource from you friends and family.
It's not a bad game, they just overestimated how well Americans can pick up irony.
Originally called "The Landlord's Game" Parker Brothers changed it to something less obviously terrible in the run up to the great depression.
I don't know if Far Side is really that deep but:
Is literally the point the game tries to beat over family's heads for hours at a time.
In an ironic twist of complete capitalist predictability, the game we know today was also stolen from the original developer.
Far Side? Here I thought that was from War Games.
It definitely is. As an avid fan of The Far Side, I can’t come up with any connection between it and that quote.
Goes to show you how indoctrinated and manipulated we all are when we think that the idea of a monopoly is more acceptable than a landlord.
They clearly meant it's a worse name for a board game, not that it references a worse thing
That's what I've been saying all the time when my brother says monopoly sucks when you don't win. It's literally designed to make you suffer
Not quite. Parker Brothers had always intended it to have a pro-capitalist message. The woman (and of course it was a woman who got fucked over) who invented The Landlord's Game essentially got duped.
https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2015/apr/11/secret-history-monopoly-capitalist-game-leftwing-origins