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How to tell that monopoly is an old game
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this post was submitted on 19 Sep 2023
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Not even make fun of, it was meant to be an educational tool to show how monopolies function.
You know how by like 2/3rds the way through the game there is already a clear winner and the rest of the game is just them slowly accumulating wealth and fucking over everyone else? That's just real life monopolization playing out in a board game example.
i remember making a deal to sell vine-street to complete someone else's orange set, but only if they paid me 10% on income from the street - i think i thought i was being funny.
anyway, after a few turns i fucked off to the pub for three or four hours . . .
came back later . . . Oligopoly had become entrenched.
it's like monopoly but worse, it never ends.
only h lawyers and accountants figuring out who owed what to whom each turn had any idea what was going on and if anyone was winning.