Comment on bad board games
shneancy@lemmy.world 2 days agoi 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
Vinstaal0@feddit.nl 2 days ago
To be fair in the real world we do have instances stopping people from buying everything, it is just that some countries are corrupt af.
shneancy@lemmy.world 2 days ago
if the instances stopping some from buying everything up can be bypassed by just having more money then they’re pointless. maybe one guy can’t have so much property, but what about a firm? and then a second firm, so many companies that own so much all owned by one person
beejboytyson@lemmy.world 2 days ago
I was about to say. When was that ever used?
Vinstaal0@feddit.nl 2 days ago
It has taken a while, but now regulating bodies are actually looking at who is the ultimate beneficial owner of a company and they will try and stop overtakes. Well, not in corrupt countries, but it is so hard to get anything properly done in a corrupt country that it doesn’t surprise me.
shneancy@lemmy.world 2 days ago
is there a non-corrupt country out there?
theneverfox@pawb.social 2 days ago
Only countries where the local rich or the government bought up enough that when the real capitol arrived, they said “not for sale”
Oh yeah, and also had a military strong enough to make it too risky to send in the private armies that companies used to have