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.
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.
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?
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!
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
They’re beta testing v1.0 but I don’t know if that affects anything
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.
Quantitative easing
Nah, that’s just plain old overnight loans.
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.
Raise the [Monopoly] Tax Rate!
