Comment on The house always wins
velma@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 days ago
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.
One change for the better at a time
Her Name was Lizzie Magie and this quote from her holds up:
“In a short time, I hope a very short time, men and women will discover that they are poor because Carnegie and Rockefeller, maybe, have more than they know what to do with. My people believe that the only way to help working girls is to get rich and give something to the poor. That is just the way not to do it. Working girls want only what they produce. If they get that they will have all they need. They can have silk underwear then.”
We should make a game based on Monopoly, that gives players options to destroy the system; unionize, give their money to charity (and get more for good appearances), lobby for higher tax rates, etc.
Let’s call it “Prosperity”!
The original version waslike that, it was called “The Prosperity Game” and gave players the ability to vote to change the economics of the board from “The Hoarder Era” to “The Prosperity Era.” prosperitygame.org
You should look up the versions No Rolls Barred did on youtube. They get very silly with it.
And the original board was waaaay larger than what we have today
They’re beta testing v1.0 but I don’t know if that affects anything
Saapas@piefed.zip 5 days ago
This is the boardgame version of the Steve Buscemi firefighter fact lol
SatansMaggotyCumFart@piefed.world 4 days ago
Did you know that in that scene in that movie were the guy kicked that thing he actually broke his toe?
ivanafterall@lemmy.world 4 days ago
Aragorn really deflected that knife.
BowtiesAreCool@lemmy.world 3 days ago
Blue harvest
Tyrq@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 days ago
Did you know that before chewbaca was cast in star wars, he was a lab test consultant for Laurier
mech@feddit.org 4 days ago
FTFY
HerbalGamer@sh.itjust.works 4 days ago
I refuse to acknowledge this fact and will keep believing a Wookie worked at L’oreal. Makes sense if you think about it.
velma@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 days ago
It’s a fascinating story that’s worth a deeper dive if you’re interested.
Saapas@piefed.zip 4 days ago
I mean yeah it was during the 9/11 too!