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Monopoly isn’t a game, it’s an ordeal. Sorry is a not completely terrible abstract, though, if you play by the adult rules.
The existence of which, when I discovered them, led me to wonder if there were rules for strip Sorry, and the internet being the internet of course there are.
How about Parcheesi? My Dad always made blockades with his men so the rest of us ended up directly behind him. But then he’d make deals with us so we wouldn’t send his men home. LOL.
The game’s little-known inventor, Elizabeth Magie, would no doubt have made herself go directly to jail if she’d lived to know just how influential today’s twisted version of her game has turned out to be.
Why?
Because it encourages its players to celebrate exactly the opposite values to those she intended to champion.
Born in 1866, Magie was an outspoken rebel against the norms and politics of her times. She was unmarried into her 40s, independent and proud of it, and made her point with a publicity stunt. Taking out a newspaper advertisement, she offered herself as a ‘young woman American slave’ for sale to the highest bidder.
Her aim, she told shocked readers, was to highlight the subordinate position of women in society. ‘We are not machines,’ she said. ‘Girls have minds, desires, hopes and ambition.’
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In addition to confronting gender politics, Magie decided to take on the capitalist system of property ownership – this time not through a publicity stunt but in the form of a board game. The inspiration began with a book that her father, the anti-monopolist politician James Magie, had handed to her.
In the pages of Henry George’s classic, Progress and Poverty (1879), she encountered his conviction that ‘the equal right of all men to use the land is as clear as their equal right to breathe the air – it is a right proclaimed by the fact of their existence’.
Traveling around America in the 1870s, George had witnessed persistent destitution amid growing wealth, and he believed it was largely the inequity of land ownership that bound these two forces – poverty and progress – together.
Nachikethass about 5 years ago
Bring in Kenny from Dogs of C-Kennel!
whahoppened about 5 years ago
Didn’t like monopoly. too long and always lost, afraid it foretold my life.
some idiot from R'lyeh Premium Member about 5 years ago
Monopoly isn’t a game, it’s an ordeal. Sorry is a not completely terrible abstract, though, if you play by the adult rules.
The existence of which, when I discovered them, led me to wonder if there were rules for strip Sorry, and the internet being the internet of course there are.
Katsuro Premium Member about 5 years ago
Here in Sweden, people always forget that if somebody lands on a street in Monopoly and chooses not to buy it, it’s auctioned to the other players.
Say What Now‽ Premium Member about 5 years ago
In the game of Life there is always Risk.
Milady Meg about 5 years ago
Settlers of Catan anyone? How about Seven Wonders? Splendor maybe? Power Grid? Ticket to Ride?
dlkrueger33 about 5 years ago
How about Parcheesi? My Dad always made blockades with his men so the rest of us ended up directly behind him. But then he’d make deals with us so we wouldn’t send his men home. LOL.
HappyDog/ᵀʳʸ ᴮᵒᶻᵒ ⁴ ᵗʰᵉ ᶠᵘⁿ ᵒᶠ ᶦᵗ Premium Member about 5 years ago
Junior: I have homework to do.
Bub: I’d better finish working on the tax returns.
Silly Season about 5 years ago
https://www.bbc.com/worklife/article/20170728-monopoly-was-invented-to-demonstrate-the-evils-of-capitalism
The game’s little-known inventor, Elizabeth Magie, would no doubt have made herself go directly to jail if she’d lived to know just how influential today’s twisted version of her game has turned out to be.
Why?
Because it encourages its players to celebrate exactly the opposite values to those she intended to champion.
Born in 1866, Magie was an outspoken rebel against the norms and politics of her times. She was unmarried into her 40s, independent and proud of it, and made her point with a publicity stunt. Taking out a newspaper advertisement, she offered herself as a ‘young woman American slave’ for sale to the highest bidder.
Her aim, she told shocked readers, was to highlight the subordinate position of women in society. ‘We are not machines,’ she said. ‘Girls have minds, desires, hopes and ambition.’
✄
In addition to confronting gender politics, Magie decided to take on the capitalist system of property ownership – this time not through a publicity stunt but in the form of a board game. The inspiration began with a book that her father, the anti-monopolist politician James Magie, had handed to her.
In the pages of Henry George’s classic, Progress and Poverty (1879), she encountered his conviction that ‘the equal right of all men to use the land is as clear as their equal right to breathe the air – it is a right proclaimed by the fact of their existence’.
Traveling around America in the 1870s, George had witnessed persistent destitution amid growing wealth, and he believed it was largely the inequity of land ownership that bound these two forces – poverty and progress – together.
ChessPirate about 5 years ago
I think the most fun game for me was “Trivial Pursuit”.
zippykatz about 5 years ago
Chutes and Ladders anyone?
fix-n-fly about 5 years ago
Life is good to open your children’s eyes. Twister would be fun for the young but a real task for mom and dad.
Moon57Shine about 5 years ago
My cousins, sister and brother in law and I had a Monopoly marathon that lasted about 8 hours. Good times.