I was deployed and we had a monopoly game night every once and a while. A few of the people I worked with just turned. I worked with them and they were good people and make sure work got done the correct way. Then monopoly started and these people were lying to each other. Making deals to trick people into charging them less rent. I’m pretty sure someone was robbing the bank.
It’s weird when you will trust someone in a fire fight, but not during monopoly. Got to keep your eyes open.
… and now add into that experience the knowledge that the game Monopoly was intentionally designed, 100+ years ago now, to show the evils and dangers of capitalism.
What you and your friends experienced in microcosm is what happens to all of society at a grander scale and slower timeframe, and the game itself was designed to cause the experience ya’ll had, to illustrate this.
You don’t get to break the rules and ruin everyone else’s time just because it’s your birthday. Seven is a nice, early age to reinforce that.
