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AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

And we only play half the game. Public Housing is supposed to be on Free Parking, the same way Just Visiting is on the Jail space. Once you’re bankrupt you go to public housing until all but one player is there. Then you start the Prosperity portion of the game, and everyone wins. Just like communism done properly.

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sloppy_diffuser@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
There is a Public Assisstence board game from the 80s. We had one when I was younger. I can’t tell if it was a “anti-welfare” game or just making fun of the whole system. I grew up pretty poor, so I always assumed the latter as a kid. Since the welfare track was easier from what I remember, now I’m not so sure, lol.

boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/3393/…/images

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- GoofSchmoofer@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
  I remember that game. My dad got it from a very conservative/racist family member - with a note that read something like “too bad I’m white and have to work for my money.”
  
  I don’t think my dad ever talked to him again.
  
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  - sloppy_diffuser@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
    Yeah seems like it was more capitalist propaganda. Thanks Lemmy for ruining my childhood memory, lol.
    
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Zyansheep@programming.dev ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
The prosperity portion was based on georgism I believe.

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