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[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I mean, Monopoly was originally made to make fun of the capitalist society America loves so much…

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Not even make fun of, it was meant to be an educational tool to show how monopolies function.

You know how by like 2/3rds the way through the game there is already a clear winner and the rest of the game is just them slowly accumulating wealth and fucking over everyone else? That's just real life monopolization playing out in a board game example.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

i remember making a deal to sell vine-street to complete someone else's orange set, but only if they paid me 10% on income from the street - i think i thought i was being funny.

anyway, after a few turns i fucked off to the pub for three or four hours . . .
came back later . . . Oligopoly had become entrenched.

it's like monopoly but worse, it never ends.

only h lawyers and accountants figuring out who owed what to whom each turn had any idea what was going on and if anyone was winning.