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pettter (pettter@mastodon.acc.umu.se)'s status on Wednesday, 25-Jan-2023 19:59:10 JST pettter
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- Darryl Mott 💀
@Abstruse socialism and socialists was definitely a thing and had been for decades.

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  Darryl Mott 💀 (abstruse@chirp.enworld.org)'s status on Wednesday, 25-Jan-2023 19:59:18 JST Darryl Mott 💀
  
  Fun Fact: The original version of Monopoly, called The Landlord Game, featured this exact mechanic. At any time, the players could vote by majority to switch to cooperative rules where everyone wins if the player with the least money doubles their money.
  The original designer, Elizabeth Magie, was...well, not a "socialist" because that term didn't exist yet, but a proto-socialist called a Georgist with that specific message intended.
  https://mastodon.me.uk/@slowe/109735060839366468
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    I haven't played Monopoly for many years now. The last game was with three housemates at university. One housemate was winning and really enjoying his triumph over the rest of us. So I suggested to my other two housemates that we form a cooperative. We would let each other off rents on our properties. The standards rents would apply to anyone not in the coop. And you could leave the coop if you wanted. None of this is forbidden in the rules of Monopoly because it has little market regulation.

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