Comment on Monopoly
ninpnin@sopuli.xyz 4 months agoHow is it capitalist propagarda exactly? Parker Brothers might have screwed her over, but it’s impossible to come out of a game of monopoly feeling more symphatetic towards landlords than when you started.
runswithjedi@lemmy.world 4 months ago
xantoxis@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Meaning, at the end of the game, more people hate the rich than are the rich. It’s not capitalist propaganda.
Kusimulkku@lemm.ee 4 months ago
I bet it does though
supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz 4 months ago
I mean, there isn’t really much evidence it does though, feeling good from being wealthy mostly comes down to not being worried about your material welfare and stability. Beyond that, owning everything really doesn’t make people any happier or more actualized as people. It is just an empty drug that unlike more fun drugs, hurts a massive amount of people every time you take it.
Kusimulkku@lemm.ee 4 months ago
How do they even study such a thing? Ask megawealthy if they’re happy and they’ll ask something “modest” like “it’s alright, you know life was so simple when I was poor” lol
ninpnin@sopuli.xyz 4 months ago
I.e., perfect satire of the current system?
runswithjedi@lemmy.world 4 months ago
ninpnin@sopuli.xyz 4 months ago
The game is (still) a satirical version of the real housing market, and anybody with half a brain gets the impression of unfairness after a game of monopoly. This is unrelated to the fact that parker brothers is making a lot of money with the game