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[-] 4_degrees@lemmy.world 26 points 4 days ago

Fun fact! Monopoly was created to elicit this exact response! You're supposed to hate this and get angry at the inequity; that's the whole point.

[-] MumboJumbo@lemmy.world 43 points 4 days ago

I grew up I a predominantly white neighborhood in a very segregated city, and I heard people harping on riots and unrest in the blacker areas and how that was bad for their neighborhoods. It wasn't until I was older that I heard the argument that the buildings they were looting or burning weren't part of their community. If a large company put a store in their neighborhood and it got looted, it wasn't bad for their community became none of the success of that company was shared by the company - they were essentially just extracting wealth from the area. Some areas having already been flipping the board. We're just getting to the point that more are ready to say "fuck boardwalk!"

[-] IndiBrony@lemmy.world 33 points 4 days ago

Sadly, plenty of idiots still playing think THEY'LL own all the board one day.

[-] BallsandBayonets 14 points 4 days ago

I just gotta land on Free Parking, then I'll be able to get mine!

[-] Bustedknuckles@lemmy.world 8 points 4 days ago

I bet plenty of players know they won't own the board but were mad that they got the thimble and are enjoying that the car player is losing too...

[-] ManuLeMaboul@lemmy.world 6 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

The whole world's like this, why do you think fascism is on the rise again everywhere ? Capitalism needs that to survive having drained everyone from everything, it's gonna keep happening again and again until we topple it.

[-] adarza@lemmy.ca 8 points 4 days ago

i flipped the board 8 years ago, chucked it outside, then let the dog piss on it daily.

[-] Coreidan@lemmy.world 1 points 4 days ago

Yet here you are getting pissed on by capitalism.

[-] cRazi_man@lemm.ee 5 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

Maybe he lives in a forest as a self sufficient hunter/gatherer.... with Internet

[-] echo 2 points 4 days ago

Flipping the board doesn't change the result and it doesn't restart the game.

[-] Cowbee@lemmy.ml 1 points 4 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Marx is 100% vindicated by saying the bourgeoisie produces, above all else, its own grave-diggers. From the Manifesto:

The essential condition for the existence, and for the sway of the bourgeois class, is the formation and augmentation of capital; the condition for capital is wage-labour. Wage-labour rests exclusively on competition between the labourers. The advance of industry, whose involuntary promoter is the bourgeoisie, replaces the isolation of the labourers, due to competition, by their revolutionary combination, due to association. The development of Modern Industry, therefore, cuts from under its feet the very foundation on which the bourgeoisie produces and appropriates products. What the bourgeoisie, therefore, produces, above all, are its own grave-diggers. Its fall and the victory of the proletariat are equally inevitable.

We are witnessing the slow collapse of a dying Empire. That's why I keep a "Read Theory, Darn It!" beginner reading list on Marxism. All except one work has an audiobook alternative linked, otherwise there are text links directly to said works. It starts off with foundations, then builds on said foundations, ending with some practical advice on how to conduct yourself as a Leftist in general. I also include intersectional theory regarding trans and enby liberation, gay rights and history, and decolonialism.

this post was submitted on 10 Nov 2024
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