• Absurdly Stupid @lemmy.world
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    27 minutes ago

    I’ve been told here on Lemmy that all the US needs to do is print more money.

    Turns out that guy was right! He must work at The Fed or at least be a banker or something.

    I’m sorry for doubting your claims

  • velma@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    3 hours ago

    Monopoly was originally called “The Landlord’s Game” and it was invented by a woman in 1903.

    It was meant to illustrate the dangers of unchecked capitalism.

    Then it was stolen by a man and turned into the game we know today.

    • chuckleslord@lemmy.world
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      1 hour ago

      It was meant to illustrate the dangers of unchecked capitalism.

      I mean, yeah, but also no. It was anti-land lord and was advocating Georgism and a land value tax. Georgism includes corporations as victims to land lord hoarding and doesn’t criticize capitalism, per se.

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      2 hours ago

      And the original board was waaaay larger than what we have today EDIT: what happened to lemmy world servers? my comment was registered very quickly

  • UnspecificGravity@piefed.social
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    2 hours ago

    Given that “the bank” owns every asset in the board and only pays out a piddly $200 every turn, normal play should pretty much never result in them running out of money.

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      yeah but if nobody gets a monopoly and there’s like max players just circling the board, there isnt anything to pull money out of the player wallets and back into the bank once properties have sold.

  • Tanis Nikana@lemmy.world
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    3 hours ago

    This should never ever happen unless no one buys anything and everyone spends weeks circling the board. However, income tax undoes about a fifth of all go-passes.