I genuinely believe that the reason everyone hates Monopoly is because it;s a realistic reflection on the inherent unfairness of a system based on capital
@alfredohno pretty sure that was entirely the point of the Landlords Game that Monopoly is based on, but they discarded the better version of the game: Prosperity.
@[email protected] Ok, I'm biting: making players realize about the pointlessness of capitalism was the actual goal of the game. The winner may own everything, but what's the point if everybody else is ruined and the society can no longer function?
@alfredohno just remembering the time our high school economics class did very effective capitalist propaganda by having the class place 3 variations of monopoly where the "communist" variant equalized the amount of money every N turns so no one could win (objectively good for real people, but bad game design) and got everyone to say that that was much more boring