What The Monopoly Man Won’t Tell You
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 29 ส.ค. 2024
- Everyone has played Monopoly, the game where you and your friends compete to see who is the most ruthless capitalist: buying land, developing property, extracting rents from your competitors. But did you know that the original game of Monopoly - before it was bought by Parker Brothers - was in fact a criticism of capitalist greed? A new “short take” from the Gravel Institute.
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Keep up the good work. We need to defeat PragerU.
You should cut out the first 8 seconds and credits to get it to 1 minute and #shorts it as a new release The algorithm will thank you
I enjoy a short video. This one could have gone a little longer. Thanks for this video and your channel.
Like they said, it gotta be within one minute. I'd like to add that they work best in portrait mode. I'm not sure if that's a requirement but that's how they're presented on the phone.
@@solarflare1206 Right on!
The most unrealistic part of Monopoly is when rich people go to jail.
Lol. You just pay off the Chance deck. Damn you Chance cards!!! *shakes fist*
So the "Get Out of Jail Free" angle is the most realistic, for the player with the most money.
One third of billionaires end up in prison at some point. The only group more likely to end up in prison is former governors of Illinois.
@@jwrosenbury lmaoo former governors that's so real tho
Now why can't that virtually unheard of consequences on the big boys finds its way to Michigan??? There's a poisoning thug by the name of Rick Snyder who needs the intimate company of either a cell mate or at least a cell. Ex-Flint mayor and that evil unelected bastard (was a black guy) who came up with the whole plan to start with TOO.
However the game makes poor people stay in jail a lot longer than rich people.
Boomers: I have passed go twice, I guess I can buy about 5-6 properties and retire at 60 comfortably.
Millennials. Dam if I can avoid jail and house renovation for 45 turns I might be able to get 1 brown property.*
* If blackrock hasnt bought it already
Boomers had to work their asses off to get their wealth... millenials can't be bothered to take a minute away from their social life to do their chores...
@@iamstartower Millennials are not poor, capitalism has made them poor. If an entire generation turns out to be a bunch of Frank Grimes, then you should blame the system not the individuals.
@@iamstartower You're a. liar. Boomers has a single income take care of the whole family. Millenials barely can afford it with both parents working. Americans today on average work more than people in all other developed countries.
I stated facts here, you just made up bs
@@iamstartower boomers had to work to get their wealth, sure
But back then the economy and work market were way less complicated
The economy was in a better shape
And work itself wasn't as complicated as it is today
Not to mention other factors like over competition, less rights, way more work to get what your counterpart got 40 years ago for a fraction of the required effort today
Sure millennials and boomers are in the same game
Boomers however played it on easy mode
Millennials are playing it on nightmare thanks to the greedy capitalist society
@@iamstartower lol boomers controlled 21% of the national wealth at our age.
Millennials on the other hand control only 4.6%. All this while wages can barely keep up with inflation.
www.cnbc.com/2020/10/09/millennials-own-less-than-5percent-of-all-us-wealth.html
Even Capitalism’s game has universal basic income.
well ubi is only a way to preserve capitalism so that doesn´t realy say anything
@@lferoannakred984 still better than not having UBI. We need to work with in the system to show people a better world is possible and then let the system fall.
@@Fedrowreview Let’s just make sure to not think that it comes naturally under Capitalism, otherwise we might get complacent and forget our end goal; that of course being economic equality for all.
And yet y’all fucked up that opportunity to get a UBI candidate in a major political position……. Twice
Just another bandaid cure that wont last. As soon as the capitalists know you have more to spend, things get more expensive.
The Monopoly Man won't tell you that his son is the Pringles Dude.
Well, no. He won't admit to shacking up with Aunt Jemima. That wasn't done back then.
"..my hands wont fit in a pringles can", - bo burnham , kayne rant.
Pringles started his food corporation with millions $ in loans from his dad the Monopoly Man. Generational wealth.
Im sure hes related to the Planters peanut dude... i think peanut's mom settled out of court
Where does the planters guy fit in? Gramps?
This video left out that the original game wasn't even called monopoly, it was called the "The Landlord's Game" and it wasn't so much properties as it was rooms in an apartment building where the players are called "tenants" and could become the landlord of the building if they chose the monopoly rules unless all the players pick the second rule mentioned in the video. Implying that the game wasn't so much telling people withing society to fight against monopoly but also saying you can start small and get rid of the landlord of the building you are living in if you mobilize with the other tenants.
That’s interesting
They did mention Landlord's Game in the beginning
"Left-wing activist Lizzie Magie patented The Landlord's Game in 1904." 0:08
th-cam.com/video/5YOsKyueelI/w-d-xo.html
They mentioned the name, but not the difference in rules. The game that Charles Darrow sold to Parker Brothers (and claimed to be his own invention) was a folk game that derived from Magie's game. When Parker Brothers realized that it was a derivation of a patented game, they bought her patent and her remaining stock, sold the stock, and then discontinued the original game. (There were a few other variants that people were selling, and Parker Brothers bought them all. One of them, they kept selling for a few decades, I don't remember why.)
Conservatives never get satire that’s why they love fallout and born in the USA.
Conservatives will play Fallout and unironically love Liberty Prime and ignore that the American government remnants is one of the most evil factions in the setting lol
Or that it’s used to literally kill the US govt in the game while thinking they’re communists like the game isn’t even subtle
@@onua2012sga Well Liberty prime is awesome I giant Mecha Robots.
But I'm head of the Institute now.
The Brotherhood of Steal is so short sighted. We need Radical Scientific progress to make a better world out of the wasteland.
Or Starship Troopers, Robo Cop, Blazing Saddles, Borat and a litany of other socially critical fiction.
@@CommieApe RoboCop is my Favorite. I often fantasize about being a Cyborg cop.....
But then I remember....
Murphy has no penis. No sex. Total Nightmare Fuel!😢😨😱
@@CommieApe anything that tries to be critical of conservatism will inevitably fail its mission if the conservative elements look cool because dumbasses will latch onto the cool and ignore everything else. See: Starship Troopers, Judge Dredd, Warhammer
RIP Mike Gravel. May your legacy live on. He was a true American hero.
omg he died. Thats sad☹️
Wait what?? He died? well, R.I.P Mike Gravel, rest well, and thank you for the Gravel Institute
Thank god
He ain't no fucking hero the heros of are country are those who choose to serve wither it be the armed forces, police, fire fingers, EMTS or choose to save lives by being doctors and nurses. Not this guy made TH-cam videos.
@@BBtankman fire fingers
During the 60s and 70s the meaning of this game was faded.
Ironic since that time was the moment everyone went left and protested against the establishment.
The book goliath explains the 60s and 70s well. People were Anti-war, but not anti-monopoly. People advocated for consumer rights rather than focusing on worker's rights and liked the idea of nationalizing all monopolies if they were left wing, regulating them if they were centrist, and ignoring them if they were right wing. command capitalism and libertarianism were ascendant.
They built the stool that Reagan stood on really.
@@lenini056 and they didn't achieved much.
Rest In peace, Senator Maurice Robert “Mike” Gravel.
based original monopoly???? 😳😳
Based? I would say it’s cringe
@@marcos9670 based in pointing out the flaws of capitalism
Rest In Peace brother. You will be remembered by generations to come and your legacy will live on forever ❤️
RIP Gravel; an American hero.
someone needs to do a kickstarter for the orginal version
Unfortunately since they bought the rights to the game when it had two rulesets, they still technically own the socialist version of the game. So they won’t release it, but they can sue you for copying it.
@@GrandPrinceBlueblood you could easily get around that. You'd want to change it a bit anyway for the modern era.
@@GrandPrinceBlueblood I would imagine it’s expired by now….if not it should be.
@@GrandPrinceBlueblood is the socialism version available online to read about?
@@pacotaco1246 The original game was called The Landlord's Game, if that helps
RIP to a real one. We'll miss you Mike.
I just heard Mike Gravel passed away. I'm now definitely subscribing to this Chanel and I will give donations as much as I can. Thank you for doing this. He deserves to be remembered in this light.
How have I *never* heard about this before?
One of the great things about Capitalism is a platform called TH-cam. It has lots of informational videos. Some capitalist companies offer free Wi-fi so you can watch for free.
@@bartdoo5757 Ah yes, because TH-cam and free Wi-fi can only exist under authoritarian market structures.
@@bartdoo5757 So do many non capitalistic organisations, and the medium that TH-cam is on (the internet) was researched and created through social funding, because before it existed there was no monetary incentive for any one company to create such a large communication network.
Pretty cool how these social structures allow for creative freedom and prosperity huh? Gotta be glad we weren't bound by profit or we'd never have had it.
@@aaronwebb1548 Capitalism brought the internet to the masses. If they weren't out for profit, companies wouldn't have an incentive to improve.
@@bartdoo5757 I suppose, that's why the less regulated the country's telecommunications industry is the better the internet. Which is why the US does have the best internet as far as speed, coverage and customer service; because deregulation led to so much competition and innovation.
Wait.... oh shit sorry everyone none of that is true. But it should be, right? So that's good enough.
He won't explain why his money looks weird, or why my family gets overly emotional when they play Monopoly with me
😞
RIP Mike Gravel.
Rest In Peace Senator Mike Gravel. You will be missed and a will always be remembered as a great progressive.
RIP Mike Gravel. You will be deeply missed.
we need more of these short videos, these will be really effective!
You fought the good fight and will be greatly missed. Rest in power, Mike!
Rest In Peace Mike Gravel.
When I was a kid we had this awesome board game called *Anti-Monopoly* and it was all about “busting trusts” 🤣
roosevelt approved
@@autumn64fromdeltarunechapter3 Actually, that was Teddy Roosevelt.
@@seansanders5959 trust buster Teddy
@@deelee4639 Todays Republicans would have thrown him out of the political party.
I have that game too! Actually they made a second version. Anti-Monopoloy II
Condolences, friends. We lost a great man, but you can carry his torch.
I believe in you.
The one time i truly won this game when i had one of every colour and a full set, i was the only one who could buy houses and the rest couldnt do anything. I got a "monopoly" position. My fellow gamers wanted me to trade away some of my property, but i said no. That was the last time we played monopoly. It was fun for me, but boring and impossible for the others. There was nothing they could do. kind of like how monopolies work in real life.
Monopoly literally says how the American dream is a lie
@Nick Arjoma I wish it was really used in the US. An alternative name for georgism is "single tax movement", i.e. taxing only the land (and other natural resources and commons, etc), and not labor.
@Nick Arjoma not fully. Georgism is great. It provides the taxation of all common resources and creates efficiency. However with all the monopolies of corporations and all these other taxes Georgism hasn’t seen the light of day. If Georgism were more widespread then only LVT and other such taxes would exist not taxes on income, labor, sales, or industry.
@Nick Arjoma a small town, and a very small village, both founded over a century ago... Technically it's correct to say there's georgist places in the USA, but completely irrelevant when talking about the American dream, since almost nobody in the US knows about georgism, otherwise there would be more towns with mayoral candidates that would implement it.
You gotta be asleep to believe it 😉
@Nick Arjoma it’s not Georgism if there isn’t a Single Tax! The LVT. Pretty sure those places still tax labor, income, sales, industry etc…. The only other taxes compatible with Georgism is any other resource that functions as land.
Rest in piece Mike Gravel ❤️
Can we take a moment to appreciate that fantastic soundtrack? Good job to everyone on the Gravel team!
I had no clue this was the background of the game. I wrote about it in my journal recently about how odd of a concept it is to have as a kids game (having only played the winner take all version of the game) and teaching them that hoarding wealth is a good thing .
Rest In Peace Hero.
_Monopoly_ still works like that, if not entirely on purpose, because at the end of the game whoever wins is usually hated by everyone else who had to play against them
Mike's enjoying a good time in the great above.
Rest in Peace Mr.Gravel, we'll miss you. 🙏
RIP Sen. Gravel
Rest In Peace Mike
A 1 minute Gavel Institute video on a bored game is more historically informative then five minute Prageru videos that claim to tech important events.
P.S. Is that Prosperity version of Monopoly available anywhere today?
You can do it yourself you know just change the rules so that rent is shared evenly among the players.
It is the same game played on the same board, just 2 different rule sets, right? Or do you mean the actual rules for that version of the game?
@@Mantose262 i actually would love to have the rule for the prosperity version
@@ericmacrae6871 - Write them yourself, and either make them available to everyone somewhere online, or sell them, giving 100% of the profit to a fund you create, distributing it equally to all citizens of some group you deem relevant, up to and including the world.
@@Mantose262 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Landlord%27s_Game
Rest in Power Mr. Gravel
Rest in peace Senator Mike Gravel
Rest in peace Mike Gravel
Gravel was one of the bravest in my generation. I will remember him no matter what.
Thank you for broadcasting truth ✊🏼✊🏼
I thought this was obvious seeing as monopoly games always turn into a period of cussing each other out with great hostility
Heck yeah. You can listen to a podcast called The Dollop for an episode where they do a deep dive into the origins of the game. They're funny guys, and I always learn a lot too
RIP Mike Gravel, you will be missed.
Prager U is shaking
This isn't exactly true. Lizzie Magie was a Georgist. She favored capitalism but with a large tax on land. Modern Georgists (aka Geoists) also support a high carbon tax, as they see the atmosphere as public property like land. Contrary to popular belief, the Landlords Game was not anti-private property, it was anti-private land. The game was meant to demonstrate the market failures that happen when an incredibly scarce commodity like land is left to the market.
@@KrasMazovHatesYourGuts Interesting, do have evidence of any sort?
@Arvin Buenaagua As a socialist, the means of production.
@@KrasMazovHatesYourGuts Spooner and Tucker were considered socialists because they advocated for the public ownership of the means of production.
@Arvin Buenaagua Land is not the only MOP.
Even then it's a stretch it's not like you weren't allowed to privately own land in Georgist policy, it's just you would pay vastly more than what current Landlords pay
You will be missed Mike Gravel. One of the few politicians that gained my respect. R.I.P.
Early based gang where you at???
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I love this channel. I just wish they pumped out content more frequently
We're working on it! We've got a video coming every week all summer and just got a studio to scale up even more.
@@TheGravelInstitute thanks for the constant updates and transparency🙏🏼
@@TheGravelInstitute you guys are doing awesome. I am a Canadian and I love you guys video's I wish I can find a channel like this for Canadian
I recently learned this tidbit of history. Hmmmm, I wonder why they didn’t keep the two sets of rules…
I really wish this was the kind of thing we learned in schools.
But you don't because the Republicans have control and spread their propaganda in our schools
Then there's also the handicaps version where you draw straws to determine what race you are and that determines how much you start with and how much you get for passing Go and so on.
Thanks for giving me a good laugh. The reality is sad and true but your comment is delightful.
Okay but Monopoly is actually a horrible game, it takes too long has no skill required and for stuff to actually change someone needs to get really lucky with their rolls consecutively, or everyone needs to do the right thing and quit.
looks at camera
I get the analogy, but if you action off the houses it should shorten the game time
I see, you understand capitalism then.
Just like real capitalism.
The ecconomic system wr used before capitism, it started to really collapse after a little plague. Maybe The Rona is our version of a plague ...
Guess you don't know how to win either in the game or irl.
The landlords game indeed
So this is why I always leave that game feeling drained and cheated lmao
at least you didnt starve to death cause someone rolled the die before you did, to which i guess is a higly veiled imitation of the feeling youd have if it happend for real... woah that went deeper than i meant too
So this is why the game never appealed to me. I played part of a game once. Never again
Another solid video, awesome job y’all!
For the algorithm
Monopoly was not anti capitalism, it was anti landlord, Lizzie Magpie was a staunch Georgist, Georgists believe in a, capitalistic market, but one in which natural resources are owned by the people.
The biggest aspect of this was landownership, though it applied to any natural resource in limited quantity. But Georgism is anti capitalist similar to how Bernie Sanders is, it’s criticizing capitalism, but looking to reform it, not destroy it.
It’s worth mentioning that Karl Marx hated Georgism, he described it as “Capitalism’s last ditch”
It’s worth noting that Marx was too arrogant to accept anything but his own ideals. His beignets gripe with Henry George was that he wasn’t socialist…. Well yeah Henry George was attempting to solve poverty from a free market anti-monopoly point. This is why libertarian socialists supported liberals like George, under actual free markets socialism could take root in a free economy where labor associates and form workers cooperatives. But monopolies, State, and corporations rig the market with interference for the capitalist class. Leo Tolstoy respected the reform of Henry George and at the very least socialists found a practical solution to land monopoly
Rip Mike gravel
Yup. Very true. One for the algorithm.
Feed the algorithm
Mike Gravel RIP.
Absolutely wild. I had no idea what the game's origins were.
Rip 🙏 Mike Gravel a true American hero 😥
The Dollop podcast has an excellent episode on this
Love these short vids ❤ short but also VERY informative
Yo, can I get a link to the Prosperity Rules for Monoply?
RIP Mike Gravel :(
monopoly man bad
Very well made, Great job!
RIP Mike Gravel. All forwards!
I was thinking the other day... In a game of monopoly every player starts with the same amount of money. If the game reflected reality the majority of the players would start the game with so little that they wouldn't be able to even think about the possibility of buying a property and would probably be eliminated on their first trip around the board.
Now I get why Monopoly destroys friendships
This will be remembered as the last video made by the Gravel Institute before Mike Gravel passed away. RIP Mike Gravel.
I knew the first part, but not the second. Thanks for the video!
Fantastic, keep educating Gravel Institute. Rest in Power, Mike Gravel.
so a few billionaires owning more than the poorest half of the planet is bad?
Yes, obviously. It's very infuriating and irritating that this currently unpopular fact even needs to be still be said repeatedly.
Rest in piece mr. gravel. You were one of the greatest names in American politics, and your impact won’t be forgotten.
Kind of like the wizard of oz and the populist party.
Well even the Monopoly rules have taught us that the endless pursuit of wealth makes friends into enemies
rip mike gravel
It was example Georgism which has widely been forgotten from history.
It was specifically a Georgist critique of land monopoly. It was to promote Henry George’s Land Value Tax.
Finally actually intelligent comment in a cesspool of Leftists.
@@danielsurvivor1372 I’d consider myself a leftist, but I understand that the game Monopoly was specifically critiquing excessive land ownership and promoting a LVT to deal with that.
Rip mike
Thanks Gravel Institute; you work is so badly needed!
Rest in peace Mike.
R.I.P Mike Gravel. Thank you gravel institute for hard work.
This video is amazing!!! Keep up the good work everyone!
She was a Georgist not a Socialist. It was meant to critize Landlordism
Rest in peace, Mr. Gravel.
She was not Anti-Capitalist! She was Anti-Rentier! She was a Georgist who made her game to spread a Georgist message.
Henry George argued that true Capitalists were the natural natural allies of Labor and that workers should cooperate with genuine entrepreneurs to help overturn the entrenched privileges of land owners and other cronies who benefited from government granted monopolies.
George was one of the more radical Classical Liberals, closer in most ways to modern Libertarians than to Progressives, who emphasized what would come to be called the Lockean Proviso. Homesteading does not actually grant a right in perpetuity to own Land (i.e., Natural Resources) but only the products produced by labor. When Land is scarce enough that the land itself has any positive market value separate from that of fixed improvements, then the government granted privilege of preventing others from using the same land need to be balanced by a duty to compensate the dispossessed. There are many ways that could be done, but George thought that the most feasible solution was to levy a simple Land Value Tax on the unimproved value of the land (any associated buildings, crops, or other improvements would be completely tax exempt, unlike in more conventional property taxes) and use it to fund some combination of public goods (like railways) and a Basic Guaranteed Income (he preferred the term Pension for All, but modern Georgists tend to call it a Citizen's Dividend).
At one point Henry George advocated the abolition of all forms of so called Intellectual Property, but he later moderated his position to instead say that Patents must be eliminated buy Copyrights are legitimate so long as they don;t last too long and so long as it is not too hard to claim fair use.
remember kids don't sell your IP to any corporation. license and bleed them dry.
Praise the algorithm...even tho it sucks
I learned this in Adam Ruins Everything
Me too! Years and years ago
Oh... the anti-capitalist message is still clearly there in Monopoly.
We just like to forget how angry family members got when playing the game that's all.
The same when playing "the game" in real life.
Can’t wait to tell my conservative, right wing family that they’ve been playing monopoly wrong
They just need to update the rules for the 21st Century. One player starts the game with 90% of the properties and can take unlimited loans from the bank, and gets $200 for passing go, while the other players start with nothing, get no loans, and don't get $200.
Also, the "rich" player doesn't go to jail. Ever.
my condolences.