01.23.04
Anti-Monopoly
If you have a gut feeling that early, painful exposure to the boardgame ‘Monopoly’ taught you the true meaning of capitalism, you could be right. The game is allegedly a fraudelently patented derivative of ‘The Landlord’s Game’, invented in 1903, and played mainly by Quakers and socialists, who were alive to the fact that the game is an effective illustration of the terrors of a market dominated by rent and speculation.
Perhaps it’s just me, but Monopoly always seems to end in victory for the monomaniacal and grinding, tedious poverty for the rest.
(via Happy Software Prole)
cloudy, chance of sun breaks said,
January 23, 2004 at 10:02 pm
Monopoly as a tool to teach business ethics?
Anti-Monopoly : Apparently, that’s how it originated . . . but as things played out, that’s not how most…
Raging Capitalist said,
January 26, 2004 at 10:39 am
Still, there are worse things to do with your time. After all, Monopoly made number 27 on the list.
Jon said,
January 26, 2004 at 10:05 pm
“There was an error locating your article”.
But I suspect this is a list of teens’ top 100 things to do with their spare time, right?