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Cheese Sandwich

(9,086 posts) Mon Nov 23, 2015, 12:47 AM Nov 2015

Yes the planet got destroyed but...

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Yes the planet got destroyed but... (Original Post) Cheese Sandwich Nov 2015 OP

Know Thy Enemy - Oligarchs, Corporations, Banks And Their Media Minions And MIC Henchmen cantbeserious Nov 2015 #1

Wow, this pretty much encompasses everything. darkangel218 Nov 2015 #2

I still can't understand how all those who played Monopoly don't get it! tech3149 Nov 2015 #3

I heard the game Monopoly was invented as an educational thing to teach about the problems of Cheese Sandwich Nov 2015 #4

Absolutely true tech3149 Nov 2015 #6

This is pretty much what I'm seeing too Hydra Nov 2015 #5

We know who the real enemy is. PatrickforO Nov 2015 #7

cantbeserious

(13,039 posts)

1. Know Thy Enemy - Oligarchs, Corporations, Banks And Their Media Minions And MIC Henchmen

Reply to Cheese Sandwich (Original post)

Mon Nov 23, 2015, 12:50 AM

Nov 2015

eom

darkangel218

(13,985 posts)

2. Wow, this pretty much encompasses everything.

Reply to Cheese Sandwich (Original post)

Mon Nov 23, 2015, 12:55 AM

Nov 2015

Thank you for posting it.

tech3149

(4,452 posts)

3. I still can't understand how all those who played Monopoly don't get it!

Reply to Cheese Sandwich (Original post)

Mon Nov 23, 2015, 01:03 AM

Nov 2015

The end of the game is everything that unrestrained capitalism works for. It's not "In the end there can be only one" it's in the end the game is over and everything ends. For a species that claims to be so intelligent, how can we accept being so self destructive?

Cheese Sandwich

(9,086 posts)

4. I heard the game Monopoly was invented as an educational thing to teach about the problems of

Reply to tech3149 (Reply #3)

Mon Nov 23, 2015, 01:10 AM

Nov 2015

capitalism. Possibly true.

tech3149

(4,452 posts)

6. Absolutely true

Reply to Cheese Sandwich (Reply #4)

Mon Nov 23, 2015, 01:36 AM

Nov 2015

The game was originated as an educational tool by Elizabeth Magie as a reaction to the economic devastation of the late 1800's The sad part is that the game never incorporated the link between politics and economics. They are inseparable sides of the same coin.

Hydra

(14,459 posts)

5. This is pretty much what I'm seeing too

Reply to Cheese Sandwich (Original post)

Mon Nov 23, 2015, 01:35 AM

Nov 2015

The worst part is that it is COMPLETELY unnecessary. We have enough for everyone, but too many people want it all...

PatrickforO

(15,109 posts)

7. We know who the real enemy is.

Reply to Cheese Sandwich (Original post)

Mon Nov 23, 2015, 01:38 AM

Nov 2015

But isn't it funny in a tragic sort of way how the right wing was manipulated into picking government as the enemy?

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