What The Monopoly Man Won’t Tell You

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.

[daveharrison]

The most unrealistic part of Monopoly is when rich people go to jail.

[riffraff]

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

[bradypus]

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.

[LogicGated]

The Monopoly Man won't tell you that his son is the Pringles Dude.

[Themadkiller]

Conservatives never get satire that’s why they love fallout and born in the USA.

[Fedrowreview]

Even Capitalism’s game has universal basic income.

[carlogaytan]

During the 60s and 70s the meaning of this game was faded.

[rini]

RIP Mike Gravel. May your legacy live on. He was a true American hero.

[MisterJang]

Rest In peace, Senator Maurice Robert “Mike” Gravel.

[rattatouilletherat]

He won't explain why his money looks weird, or why my family gets overly emotional when they play Monopoly with me

[jtofgc]

RIP to a real one. We'll miss you Mike.

[austinlagowski_]

Rest In Peace brother. You will be remembered by generations to come and your legacy will live on forever ❤️

[hypernova]

Monopoly literally says how the American dream is a lie

[adrijan]

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.

[SK-legm]

When I was a kid we had this awesome board game called *Anti-Monopoly* and it was all about “busting trusts” 🤣

[TheAllAmericanSocialistMTR]

RIP Mike Gravel. You will be deeply missed.

[TedThomasTT]

someone needs to do a kickstarter for the orginal version

[ingwerschorle_]

we need more of these short videos, these will be really effective!

[koukkoufos]

Rest In Peace Senator Mike Gravel. You will be missed and a will always be remembered as a great progressive.

[ashleyberkowitz]

How have I *never* heard about this before?