Obligatory reminder: Monopoly is deliberately intended to be un-fun because it was designed by Georgists to teach about the evils of rentiership and land-hoarding.
The square that is today labeled "collect $200 salary as you pass" was originally labeled "Labor applied to Land produces Wages."
I think it is closer to the current state of American welfare where you get very little money on the condition that you continue to try the game (go around the board and pass go) while all along, rich players and the ge.itself try to collect rent and taxes that just don't have. Nevermind the ever present threat of being sent to jail.
Whoever bought the land first gets to profit, just like real life. Oh you can't afford to pay? Guess you're out of the game now
What if I told you locking people up for rolling doubles three times does nothing to discourage the next player from doing it?
It never did. The point of the prison industrial complex is not to stop professional criminals but to deter the working class from making too much of a stink. This is also why prisons have to be squalid, inhumane places invested with bugs and where abuses by the guards are routine.
That's also why the judicial system is rigged to favor convictions and sentencing is disproportionately egregious for most crimes (e.g. possession).
I don't think this is a good analogy, because rolling doubles three times is a matter of chance, so you can't be "discouraged" to do it. While you can commit a crime willingly, rolling doubles is not something you can choose to do or really interfere with, it just happens and you're screwed. (Or maybe I missed your point entirely, in which case I apologize.)
rolling doubles is not something you can choose to do or really interfere with, it just happens and you’re screwed. (Or maybe I missed your point entirely, in which case I apologize.)
That is the joke, yes.
I mean, the $200 does encourage me to create a monopoly and simultaneously extract maximum wealth from my opponents while also taking their homes. Not sure if the monopoly analogy is useful here.
UBI is capitalists' best attempt at breathing life into capitalism. The benefits of UBI in the global north would still be at the expense of exploitation in the global south.
It depends on how it's implemented - if it's just enough to patch the system for a while, it'll just become a way to squeeze more out of people
If it's enough that work becomes optional, it'll lessen the pressure enough that consumption will drop. More people will grow food, cook, and DIY everything from repairs to cottage handicrafts. They'll have the time and energy to organize, politically and otherwise
Regardless, UBI is a stopgap measure - it can just extend the game of capitalism a little longer, or it can be the start of a transition
I think that definitionally a UBI is the latter, at least in my opinion. The point is that it elevates everyone to the same playing field, of having all essential needs covered (shelter, food, utilities, healthcare). Anything less is basically just the welfare systems that most countries (besides the US) already have. In Australia, unemployment is not enough to live on, it's purposefully punitive to "encourage" people to find a job. Giving that same amount to everyone isn't going to cover people's basic needs.
Side note: Healthcare is a basic need that everybody has. So, if a UBI were implemented in the US, it would need to be enough to cover people's health insurance. At that point, the government's already paying for it, so why not just implement universal healthcare?
And even then UBI is just another form of maintaining this "unemployed reserve army". Guaranteed jobs for every citizen capable and desiring to work, on exchange for a living wage, would automatically eliminate the people's need to stay at shitty jobs or accepting shitty wages, since they can't be easily replaced; it would increase production of goods and services much more than UBI, therefore tackling possible inflationary tendencies... It's really a much better patch to capitalism than UBI
Yep, Lemmy on web browser no longer allows me to post images in comments. Dunno what to do about it so I guess I'll just be sad.
UBI is not going to be without its problems, but it might be a stopgap to delay the onset of too many homeless starving people (which will result in police action, outlaw groups and eventually a proper Rebel Alliance, also a Résistance since chronic police brutality historically results in a résistance.
In the Great Depression, FDR enacted the New Deal because the choice was that or tremble before the Communist Revolution < swelling Bolshevik chorus > since an awful lot of Americans were living in paint-can shelters and dying of malnutrition on flour paste while Hoover was laughing and smoking cigars and playing poker with all the industrialists. Good times!
Here in the US, we've been inoculated against alternatives to socialism, but the ownership class whinging about quiet quitting and in the meantime not paying us enough to survive is running thin, so we're probably going to see something between a civil war and a genocide of non-whites, non-Christians, uppity women, people who are the wrong kind of Christianity, and eventually people who fail to snap their salute quite snappy enough.
Because we entirely failed to fix these problems during the last century, and will probably fail to fix them during the next too.
But man, I totally hope I'm wrong. Please make me eat crow.
We're already basically in the middle of a quiet genocide against people that can't work due to disability or can't get a job that pays a living wage due to a lack of opportunities.
Yep, Lemmy on web browser no longer allows me to post images in comments.
Huh. Did you try the old
thing to link to another site? Actually, let me try real quick:I can see this on my end. There does, however, seem to be a problem with uploading images to Lemmy. Not sure what to do about that, sorry.
You're using a different instance than the person with upload problems. That instance could have file upload issues that yours doesn't.
I can see it too. So either I need to find a place to put images or find a place they already exist. Hmmm...,
Yep, Lemmy on web browser no longer allows me to post images in comments.
I actually prefer the time when if someone wanted to post an image or gif it was a link you chose to click on or not.
https://web.archive.org/web/20201112020450/http://imgur.com/a/vX3zm How to Win at Monopoly and Lose All Your Friends
Rather than discouraging people not to invest, I think the larger concern is the further entrenchment of a three class system.
You'll have your capitalists, those that own the assets and robots and land. Then you'll have some amount of humanity lucky enough to get one of the jobs not automated. Finally you'll have those existing purely on UBI.
The economy will shift towards catering almost exclusively to the first two groups and anyone on UBI will be seen as a useless parasite. There won't be any efforts to price goods and services for this group beyond the bare minimum because they have very little buying power and zero earning power.
I think we've seen time and time again that the rich are more than happy owning a small pie rather than putting in the work to build something bigger, even if that would result in larger profits long term. It's going to be easier to just shrink the economy to those that still have jobs than it will be to make everyone have more equitable buying power.
UBI will probably happen and probably get paid, because it will help prevent revolts and unrest, but that is a cost center to the rich. You minimize cost centers as much as possible. It's a subscription they pay to the masses to reduce risk and that's it.
UBI will probably come, but much like AI, we're probably not going to be happy with what and how it's used. It won't be to enable an artist to pursue their passion, it'll be just enough to keep you quiet and docile, no more.
I would argue it’s more of an example of a yearly wage but ok
How is it equivalent to a wage? You don't do any work to earn it, you simply have to pass go. Unless every player is a real estate agent whose boss makes them complete a stupid foot race to get their pay?
Side note, because I can't be bothered writing a top-level comment too: Up until the more recent games that use the million scale, it's always been $200, ever since 1935 (patent date). In today's money, that's $4,586, which honestly would be a good place to start for a monthly UBI in my opinion.
Edit: Oops, double posted, apologies.
