when we were kids, we didn't have monopoly (not sure if my parents
consciously avoided it, quite possibly!) so we made our own version of
the game, with local places & streets, & from memory i think there were
quite a lot of nice bonuses you could get from the chance & community
cards - so games tended to go on until we got bored with them. i think
we had more fun making the game in the first place than actually playing it.
h : )
On 6/11/12 7:25 PM, dave miller wrote:
I've been playing it a lot recently with my kids and it always ends up
as a fight argument and sulks. Its a very cruel game and i think it
shows what happens if you are motivated by greed. if you try to be
reaonable and look out for each other in the game then it becomes a
bit pointless. its a sort of sociopath training game i think. having
said that maybe i should stop my children playing it!
dave
On Nov 6, 2012 1:38 PM, "aharon" <[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
Thanks Marc, for the tip!
A very interesting link indeed - points how monopoly collapse into
itself,
monopolising other people's efforts, and by connection, properties..
On a personal level, I never actually "got" the idea/motivation of the
game, why would one want to monoplise? Seems an arbitrary
requirement by
the game. Indeed, now that the history of the game is mentioned,
it looks
like the initial ideas, regardless of politics, were more
interesting on
conceptual and desire/urge levels - at least for me.
I wonder if anyone else experience similar disinterested feelings in
playing monopoly..?
Cheers and all the best!
Aharon
xx
> Monopoly was stolen from socialist land-reformers and perverted.
>
> Cory Doctorow.
>
> Christopher Ketcham's beautifully written Harper's feature on the
> history of Monopoly, "Monopoly Is Theft," traces the idealistic
> socialist land-reformers who created the game and modified it over
> decades, and the unscrupulous "inventor" who claimed to have
created it
> and sold it to Parker Brothers. Monopoly's forerunner was "The
> Landlord's Game," created by Lizzie Magie, inspired by Henry
George, who
> believed in the abolition of land-ownership and created a powerful
> movement to make this a reality. Many of George's devotees
played The
> Landlord's Game, learning about the evils of real-estate and
rentiers,
> and they modified the rules together, creating the game as we
know it,
> changing its name to "monopoly" (all lower-case). Then "an
unemployed
> steam-radiator repairman and part-time dog walker from Philadelphia
> named Charles Darrow" copied it, patented it, and sold it to Parker
> Brothers. The rest is history.
>
> http://boingboing.net/2012/11/05/monopoly-was-stolen-and-perver.html
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