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Monopoly is perhaps one of the most widely played and popular board games in the World. It was intended to have a rich-get-richer side effect. The original int
by PaulRobinson 8y ago
Monopoly is perhaps one of the most widely played and popular board games in the World.
It was intended to have a rich-get-richer side effect. The original intent was to demonstrate this phenomenon.[1]
It's almost impossible to design a game with an economy where this does not happen, unless you mimic real-World societies where they have avoided it (e.g. Scandinavian countries).
This is not a popular point to make to most Americans, but that does not make it any less true.
[1] http://www.bbc.com/capital/story/20170728-monopoly-was-invented-to-demonstrate-the-evils-of-capitalism http://www.bbc.com/capital/story/20170728-monopoly-was-inven...
- EliRivers 8y agoMonopoly is perhaps one of the most widely played and popular board games in the World Which is itself, perhaps, an example of this effect at work. Monopoly is boring to play and contains very little engaging gameplay [1]; a winner quickly emerges and the game then becomes a long grind in which everyone just wants it to be over. There are so many board games that are simply better and more fun in every way, yet time after time someone pulls out a Monopoly set for no good reason other than it has some kind of unfair, unjustified mindshare advantage. [1] If one plays by the actual rules, it's thankfully over a lot faster, but everyone seems to play by rules that force it into a long, painful endgame.