Joseph Farrell
Ian BetteridgeI have no idea who originally made this graphic, but whoever you are, you are a genius.
xs4me2Spot on...
Elkenumber1
Peter VL ⛔
Soozcat@ianbetteridge Also it has UBI built into the game (pass GO, collect $200)
Paul SchoeI like that observation: Monopoly already had Universal Basic Income (UBI) built into the game.
The picture of the Monopoly Board is indeed very telling.
Michael Porter@ianbetteridge @CStamp The bit about everybody going bankrupt while one person accumulates all the wealth is pretty spot on, though…
Violet Madder@MichaelPorter @ianbetteridge @CStamp I played Monopoly once. When I was like, 8.
I thought it was the worst game ever, and couldn't imagine how anyone could find such an abomination enjoyable.
If anybody had told me at the time, actually this is how the real world is run.... I'd have kicked them in the nads on the spot.
@violetmadder @ianbetteridge @CStamp It is a terrible game, not just for the general theme, but for glacial gameplay. It’s more fun when you start going off-script and breaking some rules (it *is* about corporate assholes, after all…). One of my sons got really excited when I started doing this during a game and totally bought into it. The other one wasn’t keen and walked away from the game… A little less flexible, that one 😊
@MichaelPorter @ianbetteridge @CStamp I think that was what got to me the most-- past a certain point you can pretty much tell who's going to win. Then you just spend round after round after round after round watching them gloat while you bleed, without hope.
And then in real life, the game never ends-- nobody wins, they just play till they die and then their kids inherit their money and properties and generation after generation goes around, and around, and around and I WANT TO SET THIS FUCKING BOX ON FIRE AND HURL IT OUT THE GODDAMN WINDOW.
LadyLaClaire@MichaelPorter Joshua was a star student! #wargamesmovie
sandywb14
Gebhard Hopfmüller@ianbetteridge
And STILL, exploitation wins!
And STILL, exploitation wins!
Grant 
🇨🇦@ianbetteridge Slightly aside from the original toot but am I the only one who didn’t know until very recently that Reading Railroad is pronounce “Redding”?
@ianbetteridge Brilliant!
Tim Ward ⭐🇪🇺🔶 #FBPE@ianbetteridge Well, rich people can also bribe their way out of jail instantly, so that's realistic.
@TimWardCam @ianbetteridge They print their own Get Out Of Jail Free cards. And their own money.
autumnagain@ianbetteridge
and its only $50 to get out of jail
and its only $50 to get out of jail
TAJ
sobkas@ianbetteridge rich people can go to jail if they steal from richer ones
Mori@ianbetteridge It also has an angry rebellion mechanic- the classic “table-flip”!
I guess that’s a house-rule, but so is rebellion
Liberty and Justice For All@ianbetteridge Also Railroads
Gene@ianbetteridge Good joke, but the truth is that many people have been in jail. I only wonder if Trump will end up there too?
Trump committed crimes against other members of the ruling class because he got high on his own propaganda and thought he was invincible. That is why he *might* face consequences.
Acetopheles 
@ianbetteridge omg this
Medea Vanamonde🏳️⚧️ ♀@ianbetteridge bwahahahahahaa
ChookMother 🇦🇺🦘@ianbetteridge In the new version, the players always lose, but a Chance card lets you start a revolution.
Lauralee Dukeshire HAS MOVED@ianbetteridge I love pointing out to people that Monopoly has a Universal Basic Income (pass go and collect $200) and that the game would be non-functional without it.
@LauraleeDukeshire @ianbetteridge It also simultaneously breaks the game, in that it allows for a perpetual draw in some games. There's money going into the system, but not enough money sinks that take money away from the players.
Example is the income tax, which caps out at $200, rather than allowing the 10% to go even higher.
Nini@ianbetteridge This does remind me of how deeply weird playing The Game of Life is, it's a strangely insulting game in the same vein of Monopoly in that it's not how any of this has worked in generations.
AlisonW ♿🏳️🌈♾️@ianbetteridge
And where do you find free parking nowadays?!
And where do you find free parking nowadays?!
Ascendor@ianbetteridge well, and there is unconditional basic income.
Lyle Solla-Yates@ianbetteridge oh, it’s a whole thing http://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/lifestyle/magazine/monopoly/
BensGreenGamingAc@Lyle @ianbetteridge Worth reading the wiki article - there was apparently two rule sets - one for Monopoly and one for Prosperity.
ChuS
@ianbetteridge And even if there is free market, you get a fixed minimum wage after each cycle.
lizzy 
@ianbetteridge monopoly was created by a socialist to demonstrate how much landlords suck... it's funny and ironic how people started taking this game serious