I suck at Scrabble. Not because I’m bad at words but because I’m always looking for the plays that will collectively give everyone at the table the best chance to make interesting plays.
Catan, though? I’m gonna block a sucker’s road and steal that grain, no hesitation.
I get them meme and all but I’ve become MORE progressive as I’ve become wealthier. It opened my eyes to how rigged the system is.
My first speeding ticket happened during college. I had to take a few weeks driving course, cut luxuries out of my life for a month, and pick up extra shifts at my job for a month to handle it. It was an overall miserable experience.
My next speeding ticket happened while I was an engineer. I literally paid it off on my phone while the officer was doing paperwork on the side of the road AND gave them an extra $100 because I could do that instead of any kind of driving course. I stopped caring about it at all 10 minutes later. It was fucking wild to see “laws are only for the poors” in action like that
same here, and I’m hardly wealthy. true middle class.
board games though? I’m gonna do my best to crush you
I have become more left orientated after years went by, but I have always been decently progressive. Not every country allows for the full political spectrum sadly so a lot of people have to choose between progressive left and conservative right, but it isn’t the only way/
It’s honestly a really bad game to play. You either give in a little bit by trading at loss or you make everyone want to stop playing because there’s just no way to win and there’s absolutely no reason to play any further.
Great for making kids fight, though.
i 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
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.
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
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
I was about to say. When was that ever used?
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.
is there a non-corrupt country out there?
There is a difference between a country being corrupt and a country having corruption or a lot of people in a country paying for corruption (in other countries). You can check the corruption index if you want.
fair point, i’m just wondering where the line is
I wonder how a progressive tax on all income would change the game. Maybe divided between the participants or used however the participants voted. Winning mechanism would probably need to be changed to something other than whoever piles up the most cash and property.
I suspect the game would just never end and properties would change hands again and again.
Progressive taxation is a negative feedback that creates a tendency toward an equilibrium.
Winner-take-all rules (as currently played) are positive feedbacks that lead to runaway effects, like me flipping over the board and setting up the slip and slide as a more pro-social activity.
Monopoly, the game that was originally designed to show that capitalism doesn’t work 😆🙉
It’s about landlordism specifically, not capitalism. Used to be called “The Landlord’s Game”.
Works for one
Even if in the game it feels good to be rich parasite.
