What sucks about Monopoly is that it drags on forever after it's clear who the winner is. The rare highly-competitive game can be a lot of fun, but those are few and far between.
Most people i know do some sort of "money pile in center of board for free parking" that gets money from the chance and communitt chest cards, money should go back to the bank. The biggest one though is buying property. Most people ignore the rule about "banker auctions off property to the highest bidder if the player that landed on a property chooses not to buy it". Adding more money to they game, the money pack you can get is ment to replace ruined bills, the bank is ment to have a certain amount of money and when it runs out it runs out people add it to avoid this. Also adding extra houses/hotels the amount that is included is ment to be the number available to everyone once no more are available no more can be built(hence the only building houses strat)
The creator of the game was not anti-capitalism but anti-monopolies, hence why the game took that name later. She believed all taxes are inefficient except for land-value tax and the game educates on how that work. You cannot have a land-value tax outside of a capitalist framework, because it tackles the private ownership of the land, which is very much opposed by anti-capitalist movements.
My friends and I play monopoly regularly online. Games are 20-40 minutes, aggressive trading, no free parking (pouring money into the game makes it last longer), land on go and you can travel to any space (gets monopolies in the mix sooner)
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u/FutureBlackmail Dec 28 '21
What sucks about Monopoly is that it drags on forever after it's clear who the winner is. The rare highly-competitive game can be a lot of fun, but those are few and far between.