Thoughts About Monopoly
According to Wikipedia, the purpose of the board game Monopoly was
to teach people how monopolies end up bankrupting the many and giving extraordinary wealth to one or few individuals.
It’s really weird how this thought never crossed my mind when I was a kid. The only thought I had was to beat everybody mercilessly by any means necessary. Which usually meant hiding money under the board to gain sympathy and then to turn it all around and make surprise hotel purchases on the Light Blues.
Also, everyone knows that anyone who owned the four Railroads owned the city.
If this game was meant to teach children about the destructive nature of a monopoly, the reward for losing shouldn’t have been freedom from a six-hour board game.
(Source: Wikipedia)
