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The Corruption Of The Game 'Monopoly' By Parker Brothers

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The famous family-friendly game “Monopoly” has been played for years. Households have adapted the game into their own, changing some of the original rules and converting them into house rules. If anyone has noticed, “Monopoly” isn’t exactly a happy game and often encounters many problems. It can create family rivalry and often end in arguments about who’s right and who’s wrong. But, this particular game can bring the family together, and it always seems to be the board game households turn to for fun. The 1935 popular board game “Monopoly”, published by Parker Brothers, negatively impacts our society by promoting American greed, financial manipulation, and tainted morals.
The history of “Monopoly” is derived from “The Landlord’s Game” created …show more content…

One of the ways “Monopoly” has a negative impact is by promoting American greed. Owners of land, houses, and hotels acquire the property through luck. Whenever a player lands on the property, the owner extracts profits from them. This leads to owners of the property being insensitive to others. They have an idea in their head that they rule the game and only want more. Consumer choice has been ruled by the roll of a dice (Powell 2004). Rolling of the dice creates a forced exchange between producers and others. Players can offer to exchange what’s owed for other properties/transactions, but in the sense of winning the game, will exchanging ensure your victory? The owner of the property will most likely have the player pay what is owed as they want to be the wealthiest. This ties to American greed because each player has the same goal in mind, to buy and buy is to ultimately win. Invest in as many properties as possible and winning is in the …show more content…

This point goes hand and hand with American greed. Players are manipulating their opponents. Although by chance, whatever is landed on must be payed for. Society has taught children to buy property, increase sales by purchasing hotels, and charging opponents for accidentally landing there (Raworth 2017). This leads to the underlying take of greed and is looked upon as a way of winning. Players strategic moves to buy every property, promote financial manipulation earning bonus points with even more gain when owning all four railroads. This raises the profit if a player lands on a railroad owned by only one

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