Word: moneyitis
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...board game fans out there will probably be able to relate to a recent experience I had. As we dedicated players know, Monopoly games can become brutal; they are a merciless battle of wits, a test of strength, and a harbinger of future success. The values of Monopoly: shrewd money managing, heartless business dealings, and greedy, ceaseless expansion would make Captain Industry extremely proud...
...game progressed, it became clear that some players were accumulating properties more quickly than others. As usual, a dearth of money appeared as those quickest to the monopolies began racking up huge, price-gouged rents. Yet, curiously, well into the game, there was an unusually generous exchange of money between two players, who covered each other as they landed on particularly large rents and were short on money...
Fortunately, the other players refused to allow such egregious cheating go unanswered. Three other players decided to form a collective team, which they—coincidentally—dubbed the “Communist Team.” In their scenario, the three players pooled all of their money and properties together, openly and willingly paying for all of the debts owed as the three characters made it across the board. This seemed like a good counterweight, one large conglomeration responding to a pair of cold-hearted venture capitalists...
...Communist Team soon discovered, money was short. Despite holding onto prized properties, they consistently lacked the money to build new hotels, since they had to cover costs of three members, who quite unsurreptitiously landed on well-built properties...
...this not-so-subtle allegory of the Cold War turned out to be sadly accurate. My hard-earned money quickly fell to the capitalists who had the most rapid development and the largest cash reserves. I was like the India of the 1960s, attempting to chart my own course yet constantly being pulled in two directions. After I fell, the Communist bloc quickly dissolved too, burdened by the costs and failure to expand, much like Soviet Russia and Red China were by vast populations and energy but a lack of capital. Like the result of the Cold War, the Monopoly...