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  Welllll I’m sure it’s been mentioned but look up the history of the game
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  Monopoly taught me the best way to win is to buy all of the houses and never upgrade to hotels, thereby making it highly difficult for everyone else to improve their own properties. >
  
  I can’t remember the difference in hotels/houses, can you explain the added difficulty by doing this? >
  
  You get to charge more if you have a hotel vs. if you have houses on the property but what they're referring to is that the rules are very clear that you can only use the houses and hotels in the game. If all the houses are currently used on the board then no one else can build a house until someone upgraded to a hotel and (in doing so) returned the houses they had on that property. 
  So a very effective strategy is to put houses on all your properties and never upgrade to hotels even if you can afford it. Then you get to charge more on your properties while starving anyone else of the ability to meaningfully do the same. >
  
  Which is a pretty good analogy for Nimby home owners passing zoning restrictions against new construction in order to make sure their property values stay inflated. >
  
  Ok, now I'm wondering if some of the folks who got rich in the 80s were just really good at Monopoly and thought about ways to apply lessons learned in game to real life. >
  
  No. It's explicitly the other way around. Monopoly was created to be a critique of this very system. >
  
  Late game monopoly is all about staying in jail regardless if you rich or poor. In me opinion. >
  
  This guy monopolies >
  
  r/thisguythisguys >
  
  r/thisguythatguys >
  
  r/subsifellfor >
  
  r/thisguyfallsforsubs >
  
  r/subsifellfor >
  
  And in fact that the wealthy have nothing to lose and can even keep earning while inside >
  
  Hasbro made a card-based game of Monopoly called Monopoly Deal.  We have a young son who prolly can’t make it through hours of Monopoly so we tried that.  You have to play action cards to collect rent so you can target individual players and if they run out of money, you get their property.  What I’ve learned from playing 10-12 times is that you want to target the middle class.  The poor have nothing to take so why bother and the rich have enough cash to protect themselves (i.e.  pay you rent and not lose property).  If the makers of the game wanted to keep this true to the original (which supposedly teaches lessons about capitalism) I think they nailed it. >
  
  Monopoly is a much faster game without house rules… if you run out of houses no more houses, no money in the middle.
  Basically never upgrade to hotels - put 4 houses everywhere - start a monopoly and win. >
  
  We play no money in the middle but unlimited houses bc no one even considered an alternative despite the fact that we were trying to stay to the actual rules >
  
  My father wanted to play he could put extra houses, but  in real life, you'd be stuck with the local zoning. >
  
  Also that rich people in jail still come out rich... oh and they can pay their way out >
  
  It’s £50 mate, I can lend you it if you’re that hard up >
  
  You can build a house for 50, it’s clearly not meant to correlate with a regular life currency
  Imagine if the fine for speeding in real life was the same as what your house cost >
  
  If you think of it as bail and not a fine, it makes more sense. >
  
  A fine makes more sense in terms of gameplay, since with bail you have to go back to jail after a fixed period of time >
  
  Monopoly is one of those games that show people's true personality. 
  I've had some good games and I still do enjoy the game. At the same time I've seen boards flipped and people leave crying 
  That doesn't happen in Sorry!, or Uno, or Settlers of Catan. 
  It's wild >
  
  What kind of adult toddler flips the board and leaves crying because they lost at monopoly? You need some new friends / family lol, that's not normal >
  
  yeah, I've never seen anyone flip a board before either >
  
  Maybe the better question should be, who continues to play board games with people who act like that? If I flipped a board and stormed out like a bratty kid, nobody would ever play a board game with me again >
  
  One example: it was church youth group game night (that's a mouth full).
  Three hours into the game two people make a bogus deal to not charge the other person when they land on their property. They owned about half the board between the two of them. This snowballs. Things get vicious. 
  Youth leader leaves the game crying because we were hurling insults at each other and she couldn't imagine us being so mean >
  
  Willing? The less money you have, the more aggravating it is to go to jail. >
  
  Jail is cheaper than the expensive sides with houses >
  
  Jail is for profit nowadays. You'll never get out. >
  
  More like in late stage capitalism, its preferable to live in jail than any location.   
  Damn, of all the board games we could be living in, we live in monopoly. >
  
  And then stolen by capitalists that made BILLIONS off of it. What’s the opposite of poetic justice? >
  
  "Depressing irony" I guess? >
  
  Monopoly teaches you many things, like it's always best to be the banker >
  
  How so? I don't remember any game advantages. Though I did like handling all the money as a kid >
  
  The banker gets advantages when nobody is looking.  Usually when everyone is distracted by doubles, biddings, or an intense trade. >
  
  Yes, if the banker cheats. We don't play with that friend or cousin, let alone let them be banker. >
  
  Thats the point. Irl the banks always cheat. >
  
  That isn't a part of the game though. I can't stab a bank; I can ostracize someone cheating at Monopoly, or better yet, not play at all. >
  
  You can stab a bank. It won't do anything but possibly injure your hand, but they'll love you down at the courthouse. >
  
  We all played a fierce game of Monopoly last night didn't we ? >
  
  This guy sucks at monopoly. Poor people need to pass go for their universal basic income, wealthy people can hide jn the jail and collect rent. >
  
  I didnt mind going to jail when I was rich either. Just sit there for 3 turns and collect money. >
  
  In Monopoly, it’s much safer to sit in jail late game even if you are wealthy. >
  
  I'll tell you something I've learned over the last few years: It's fucking expensive to be poor! >
  
  Monopoly is a game that was originally designed to show the evils of capitalism, and the problems with a free uncontrolled market.
  So yeah >
  
  poor people get free food, clothes and shelter. Jail? Why not? >
  
  I also learned in monopoly yesterday that really the winner is the bank. That was stacked up high whilst cash was tight amongst all players. >
  
  There was one time my family played and the bank literally ran out of money. We decided that no one will get any money (and are not owed it) until the bank has some come back to it. If you missed out, too bad. >
  
  One of the most true to life parts of Monopoly is the rule for what happens when the bank runs out of money. Just like a real central bank:
  
  The Bank "never goes broke." If the Bank runs out of money, the Banker may issue as much as needed by writing on any ordinary paper. >
  
  Like many others, my family never read the official rules nor have a clue what happened to the paper with those rules. So many dragged on games but we still had fun. >
  
  Also that for those ahead in the game, going to jail isn’t really a threat. >
  
  Something something it’s a game that was meant to demonstrate late stage capitalism >
  
  Monopoly also teaches you that you can get rich fast with free parking. >
  
  While you can avoid paying rent there, the rules say nothing about a pot on free parking.  If you change the rules, it's not the same game. >
  
  Free healthcare AND food better then the school cafeteria?
  Fuck yeah >
  
  In Monopoly you start out with equal money and equal play time. Life is soo much harder playing against someone who is 30 years older with tons of money >
  
  Prison is a preferable alternative to paying rent with these prices >
  
  Monopoly taught me that you should always volunteer to be the banker and discretely sneak yourself a a few hundred when you get a chance. >
  
  I been thinking on this…
  Jail has a lot of pros going for it. 
  You get three meals a day. A place to sleep. Medical care. And all that free time. 
  I mean, you can’t leave sure. But you don’t got to pay to exist in jail. You don’t gotta spend 50 hours a week bustin ass just to be able to afford going deeper into debt. 
  You can just lay in your bed all day reading. 
  I’m just saying, jail sounds good to me. >
  
  It teaches you you're more likely to go to jail if you're poor, not more willing. >
  
  Monopoly is captalism the game, was made to make Fun of captalism but it got to big and now is a captalist system in and of itself >
  
  Technically, monopoly was made to educate people on flaws of capitalism. In the original game, there were two sets of rules. In the first one, everyone would get money after someone buys a new property, or something like that. This way everyone benefits and that's supposed to portray a more fair economy. The seccond one is the set of rules we are using today, in which the goal is to tax other players as much as possible and make them bankrupt. Turned out that people liked the seccond version much better. 
  So I guess what your said is not surprising when you know the game was meant to criticize the system lol. >
  
  Monopoly started as, and is, a social commentary on the inequities in the USA. Specifically, about landlords squeezing out tenants and driving them into poverty. >
  
  Danger of capitalism.
  It's VERY possible to have a game where no one loses since trading is a feature, but it's a game so there must be a winner, right? It doesn't have to be that way. >
  
  Highlander rules it is. >
  
  Monopoly teaches you two important life lessons.
  
  Invest early. Either in yourself, your efforts or something else.
  Don’t just take the easiest option of sitting there and throwing. Have an objective, and do everything you can to get there.
  
  Otherwise yeah, you’re going to want to sit in prison. >
  
  
  Capitalism is fundamentally broken. >
  
  Every economic system is broken for someone.
  More often than not it’s ruined by ineffectual management. >
  
  Monopoly is an indictment of poorly regulated capitalism, people seem to miss its message. >
  
  Monopoly teaches you that if you're poor, you won't get a choice but go to jail.   
  who willingly goes to jail? I think you missed the point my dude. >
  
  I will willingly go to jail in late stage Monopoly so I don’t have to pay rent or property charges whilst my opponent does >
  
  It very much was from a time where being poor was a crime. I believe “Life” also had debtors prison at some point. >
  
  Welllll I’m sure it’s been mentioned but look up the history of the game >
  
  If you ever played China Town, it’s what Monopoly wanted to be and I refuse to play it a forth time. 
  I’ve played China Town 3 times and the last two times I damn near flipped the table. >
  
  In my experience monopoly is 100% random dice rolls and buying everything you land on. Doesn't feel like there's much strategy to it. >
  
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  Monopoly taught me the best way to win is to buy all of the houses and never upgrade to hotels, thereby making it highly difficult for everyone else to improve their own properties. >
  
  I can’t remember the difference in hotels/houses, can you explain the added difficulty by doing this? >
  
  You get to charge more if you have a hotel vs. if you have houses on the property but what they're referring to is that the rules are very clear that you can only use the houses and hotels in the game. If all the houses are currently used on the board then no one else can build a house until someone upgraded to a hotel and (in doing so) returned the houses they had on that property. 
  So a very effective strategy is to put houses on all your properties and never upgrade to hotels even if you can afford it. Then you get to charge more on your properties while starving anyone else of the ability to meaningfully do the same. >
  
  Which is a pretty good analogy for Nimby home owners passing zoning restrictions against new construction in order to make sure their property values stay inflated. >
  
  Ok, now I'm wondering if some of the folks who got rich in the 80s were just really good at Monopoly and thought about ways to apply lessons learned in game to real life. >
  
  No. It's explicitly the other way around. Monopoly was created to be a critique of this very system. >
  
  Late game monopoly is all about staying in jail regardless if you rich or poor. In me opinion. >
  
  This guy monopolies >
  
  r/thisguythisguys >
  
  r/thisguythatguys >
  
  r/subsifellfor >
  
  r/thisguyfallsforsubs >
  
  r/subsifellfor >
  
  And in fact that the wealthy have nothing to lose and can even keep earning while inside >
  
  Hasbro made a card-based game of Monopoly called Monopoly Deal.  We have a young son who prolly can’t make it through hours of Monopoly so we tried that.  You have to play action cards to collect rent so you can target individual players and if they run out of money, you get their property.  What I’ve learned from playing 10-12 times is that you want to target the middle class.  The poor have nothing to take so why bother and the rich have enough cash to protect themselves (i.e.  pay you rent and not lose property).  If the makers of the game wanted to keep this true to the original (which supposedly teaches lessons about capitalism) I think they nailed it. >
  
  Monopoly is a much faster game without house rules… if you run out of houses no more houses, no money in the middle.
  Basically never upgrade to hotels - put 4 houses everywhere - start a monopoly and win. >
  
  We play no money in the middle but unlimited houses bc no one even considered an alternative despite the fact that we were trying to stay to the actual rules >
  
  My father wanted to play he could put extra houses, but  in real life, you'd be stuck with the local zoning. >
  
  Also that rich people in jail still come out rich... oh and they can pay their way out >
  
  It’s £50 mate, I can lend you it if you’re that hard up >
  
  You can build a house for 50, it’s clearly not meant to correlate with a regular life currency
  Imagine if the fine for speeding in real life was the same as what your house cost >
  
  If you think of it as bail and not a fine, it makes more sense. >
  
  A fine makes more sense in terms of gameplay, since with bail you have to go back to jail after a fixed period of time >
  
  Monopoly is one of those games that show people's true personality. 
  I've had some good games and I still do enjoy the game. At the same time I've seen boards flipped and people leave crying 
  That doesn't happen in Sorry!, or Uno, or Settlers of Catan. 
  It's wild >
  
  What kind of adult toddler flips the board and leaves crying because they lost at monopoly? You need some new friends / family lol, that's not normal >
  
  yeah, I've never seen anyone flip a board before either >
  
  Maybe the better question should be, who continues to play board games with people who act like that? If I flipped a board and stormed out like a bratty kid, nobody would ever play a board game with me again >
  
  One example: it was church youth group game night (that's a mouth full).
  Three hours into the game two people make a bogus deal to not charge the other person when they land on their property. They owned about half the board between the two of them. This snowballs. Things get vicious. 
  Youth leader leaves the game crying because we were hurling insults at each other and she couldn't imagine us being so mean >
  
  Willing? The less money you have, the more aggravating it is to go to jail. >
  
  Jail is cheaper than the expensive sides with houses >
  
  Jail is for profit nowadays. You'll never get out. >
  
  More like in late stage capitalism, its preferable to live in jail than any location.   
  Damn, of all the board games we could be living in, we live in monopoly. >
  
  And then stolen by capitalists that made BILLIONS off of it. What’s the opposite of poetic justice? >
  
  "Depressing irony" I guess? >
  
  Monopoly teaches you many things, like it's always best to be the banker >
  
  How so? I don't remember any game advantages. Though I did like handling all the money as a kid >
  
  The banker gets advantages when nobody is looking.  Usually when everyone is distracted by doubles, biddings, or an intense trade. >
  
  Yes, if the banker cheats. We don't play with that friend or cousin, let alone let them be banker. >
  
  Thats the point. Irl the banks always cheat. >
  
  That isn't a part of the game though. I can't stab a bank; I can ostracize someone cheating at Monopoly, or better yet, not play at all. >
  
  You can stab a bank. It won't do anything but possibly injure your hand, but they'll love you down at the courthouse. >
  
  We all played a fierce game of Monopoly last night didn't we ? >
  
  This guy sucks at monopoly. Poor people need to pass go for their universal basic income, wealthy people can hide jn the jail and collect rent. >
  
  I didnt mind going to jail when I was rich either. Just sit there for 3 turns and collect money. >
  
  In Monopoly, it’s much safer to sit in jail late game even if you are wealthy. >
  
  I'll tell you something I've learned over the last few years: It's fucking expensive to be poor! >
  
  Monopoly is a game that was originally designed to show the evils of capitalism, and the problems with a free uncontrolled market.
  So yeah >
  
  poor people get free food, clothes and shelter. Jail? Why not? >
  
  I also learned in monopoly yesterday that really the winner is the bank. That was stacked up high whilst cash was tight amongst all players. >
  
  There was one time my family played and the bank literally ran out of money. We decided that no one will get any money (and are not owed it) until the bank has some come back to it. If you missed out, too bad. >
  
  One of the most true to life parts of Monopoly is the rule for what happens when the bank runs out of money. Just like a real central bank:
  
  The Bank "never goes broke." If the Bank runs out of money, the Banker may issue as much as needed by writing on any ordinary paper. >
  
  Like many others, my family never read the official rules nor have a clue what happened to the paper with those rules. So many dragged on games but we still had fun. >
  
  Also that for those ahead in the game, going to jail isn’t really a threat. >
  
  Something something it’s a game that was meant to demonstrate late stage capitalism >
  
  Monopoly also teaches you that you can get rich fast with free parking. >
  
  While you can avoid paying rent there, the rules say nothing about a pot on free parking.  If you change the rules, it's not the same game. >
  
  Free healthcare AND food better then the school cafeteria?
  Fuck yeah >
  
  In Monopoly you start out with equal money and equal play time. Life is soo much harder playing against someone who is 30 years older with tons of money >
  
  Prison is a preferable alternative to paying rent with these prices >
  
  Monopoly taught me that you should always volunteer to be the banker and discretely sneak yourself a a few hundred when you get a chance. >
  
  I been thinking on this…
  Jail has a lot of pros going for it. 
  You get three meals a day. A place to sleep. Medical care. And all that free time. 
  I mean, you can’t leave sure. But you don’t got to pay to exist in jail. You don’t gotta spend 50 hours a week bustin ass just to be able to afford going deeper into debt. 
  You can just lay in your bed all day reading. 
  I’m just saying, jail sounds good to me. >
  
  It teaches you you're more likely to go to jail if you're poor, not more willing. >
  
  Monopoly is captalism the game, was made to make Fun of captalism but it got to big and now is a captalist system in and of itself >
  
  Technically, monopoly was made to educate people on flaws of capitalism. In the original game, there were two sets of rules. In the first one, everyone would get money after someone buys a new property, or something like that. This way everyone benefits and that's supposed to portray a more fair economy. The seccond one is the set of rules we are using today, in which the goal is to tax other players as much as possible and make them bankrupt. Turned out that people liked the seccond version much better. 
  So I guess what your said is not surprising when you know the game was meant to criticize the system lol. >
  
  Monopoly started as, and is, a social commentary on the inequities in the USA. Specifically, about landlords squeezing out tenants and driving them into poverty. >
  
  Danger of capitalism.
  It's VERY possible to have a game where no one loses since trading is a feature, but it's a game so there must be a winner, right? It doesn't have to be that way. >
  
  Highlander rules it is. >
  
  Monopoly teaches you two important life lessons.
  
  Invest early. Either in yourself, your efforts or something else.
  Don’t just take the easiest option of sitting there and throwing. Have an objective, and do everything you can to get there.
  
  Otherwise yeah, you’re going to want to sit in prison. >
  
  
  Capitalism is fundamentally broken. >
  
  Every economic system is broken for someone.
  More often than not it’s ruined by ineffectual management. >
  
  Monopoly is an indictment of poorly regulated capitalism, people seem to miss its message. >
  
  Monopoly teaches you that if you're poor, you won't get a choice but go to jail.   
  who willingly goes to jail? I think you missed the point my dude. >
  
  I will willingly go to jail in late stage Monopoly so I don’t have to pay rent or property charges whilst my opponent does >
  
  It very much was from a time where being poor was a crime. I believe “Life” also had debtors prison at some point.