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gonna teach them by playing monopoly properly
You can teach them properly about capitalism by making them follow the rules to the letter and following slightly relaxed rules for yourself, such as starting with extra cash and the ability to take out interest-free loans on you properties while still collecting rent, and reducing the costs for you to buy houses and hotels because you can leverage market forces in you favor.
New chance cards only you could get would include:
You busted a union, collect $100
Shorted stocks and left everyone else holding the bag, collect $25 from each player
Caught Insider trading, pay $1 or go to jail until your next turn
If you want to simulate Capitalism with the Monopoly game, you need to start with:
- All the land is already owned and randomly developed.
- Not everybody starts with the same conditions: you have 3 classes of player, “high” getting a large amount of money and a share of the land already occupied, the “medium” getting a small amount of money and no land, the “low” starting with no money and no land. You can randomize who gets which class.
That only one of those who starts as a “high” class player has any chance to win and the game is no fun for the rest is part of the lesson.
For every 10 full size snickers you collect, I give you one loose m&m.
I also put a couple of your siblings up for adoption right before Halloween to let you know you’re expendable.
If it bothers you, you can always go talk to your mom, who empathises, so that you feel good enough to get back to collecting
myour candy. But she will immediately come tell me everything you said.You ungrateful worm… After all I’ve done for you?
“Sorry son, little Johnny across the street is willing to go trick or treating for only two pieces of candy per hour, so I’m taking him instead.”
This is like the level of the boomer meme about teaching kids about taxes.
I think it’s meant to be a parody on the boomer anti-socialism meme
you only get to trick or treat on the property you own
libertarian Halloween is shit!
Additionally, if your bucket handle breaks, you need third party software and hardware to create a matching digital signature to replace the handle.
Will you pay them to collect the candy too?
of course. They will recieve 30% of the candy the collect as payment
What a generous rate! And a great way to ease them into the shock that the real rate is much, much worse
Under capitalism, a properly regulated, and competitive free market is not zero sum.
Such a thing is impossible. The current system is working exactly as intended
Such a thing is impossible.
What is your argument to support this statement?
The current system is working exactly as intended
If the current system is intended to be capitalist, then it is not working as intended, as was described above.
What is your argument to support this statement?
You got it wrong. What’s your empirical evidence to support your statement?
If the current system is intended to be capitalist, then it is not working as intended, as was described above.
Not at all. This is capitalism. Actually existing capitalism. I’m de-facto correct.
What is your argument to support this statement?
You got it wrong. What’s your empirical evidence to support your statement?
I don’t really understand this. You claimed that it is impossible. Saying something is impossible is different than saying that it hasn’t happened. To claim that something is impossible is a final statement where certain rules can never be satisfied. As such, you certainly can provide an argument for your claim. That being said, my counterargument would be a simple example: Person 1 wants an apple, and Person 2 wants money. Person 1 and Person 2 agree that 1$ is a fair price for an apple. Person 2 gives the apple to Person 1 in exchange for Person 1 giving 1$ to Person 2. Person 1 is happy because they have an apple, which they wanted, and Person 2 is happier because they received money, which they wanted. The net satisfaction is greater than zero — both sides received something that they wanted.
If the current system is intended to be capitalist, then it is not working as intended, as was described above.
Not at all. This is capitalism.
I can use one simple example to counter that: If one can find an example of a monopoly then the market in which that monopoly exists is not capitalist — one example to prove that point is private utilities.
That not how science works. You don’t get to posit a theory without falsification and declare it as true until someone else comes up with a falsification for it and tests it.
You have no evidence you just have wild theories based on “perfectly spherical cows in a vacuum” .
And monopolies don’t prove the non existence of Capitalism. They’re it’s natural end result.
That not how science works. You don’t get to posit a theory without falsification and declare it as true until someone else comes up with a falsification for it and tests it.
You have no evidence you just have wild theories based on “perfectly spherical cows in a vacuum” .
Did you not read my previous message? Or did you, perhaps, misinterpret it? My original thesis was “under capitalism, a properly regulated, and competitive free market is not zero sum.”, which you claimed was impossible. I then provided a simple example for why it was not impossible. You seem to perhaps take issue with the example’s idealistic nature, but the original thesis was idealistic, so I’m not sure why there would be an issue with that. This is purely a conceptual discussion — my statement wasn’t making a claim about how effective regulation is at ensuring adequate competition. So I’m not really sure where the issue lies.
And monopolies don’t prove the non existence of Capitalism. They’re it’s natural end result.
Monopolies appear to be the natural end result of a true free market — that is, a market with no regulation. Capitalism simply describes a competitive market. To that end, note that a monopolistic market — ie an anticompetitive market — is, by definition, not capitalist. In practice, to ensure fair competition, a central governing body is required.
Nah, make it illegal to own buckets.
That’s the states candy, cease your investigation.
