What The Monopoly Man Won’t Tell You 

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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

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

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.

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

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

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

someone needs to do a kickstarter for the orginal version

based original monopoly???? 😳😳

RIP Mike Gravel.

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

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!

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.

Rest In Peace Mike

_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

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.

Rest In Peace Hero.

Rest in piece Mike Gravel ❤️

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?

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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.

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Rest in Power Mr. Gravel

Prager U is shaking

Thank you for broadcasting truth ✊🏼✊🏼

I recently learned this tidbit of history. Hmmmm, I wonder why they didn’t keep the two sets of rules…

So this is why I always leave that game feeling drained and cheated lmao

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

Absolutely wild. I had no idea what the game's origins were.

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For the algorithm

Now I get why Monopoly destroys friendships

Another solid video, awesome job y’all!

Well even the Monopoly rules have taught us that the endless pursuit of wealth makes friends into enemies

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.

Mike Gravel RIP.

This will be remembered as the last video made by the Gravel Institute before Mike Gravel passed away. RIP Mike Gravel.

Yup. Very true. One for the algorithm.

It was example Georgism which has widely been forgotten from history.

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RIP Mike Gravel. All forwards!

Rest in peace Mike.

Rip mike

This sounds shockingly similar to the story behind the patent for insulin. Someone sells a patent for fairly cheap hoping that it will lead to far more people being benefitted, but instead it gets used to make companies a lot of money at the expense of others.

remember kids don't sell your IP to any corporation. license and bleed them dry.

She was a Georgist not a Socialist. It was meant to critize Landlordism

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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.

I learned this in Adam Ruins Everything

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.

My mind was blown when I realized it was a miserable experience that made 10 year old me hate my family *on purpose*. I thought it was just a shitty game all this time.

so a few billionaires owning more than the poorest half of the planet is bad?

Looks like the Gravel Institute is a fine legacy.

So this is why this game is only fun when your winning.

There's a reason no one actually plays monopoly by the actual rules of monopoly.

A psychological study was done which showed that empathy levels for Monopoly winners decline.

awesome message but can we talk about the animations and editing sheesh

Monopoly was actually not made to be anti-capitalist. In fact, the game's creator, Lizzie Magie, wasn't a socialist, but a georgist. Georgism is a type of capitalism that involves a land tax to counter landlords, as Georgists believe that landlords are the corrupted version of capitalism. Thus the game was titled "The Landlord's Game" when it was first produced, but it was changed by Hasbro when they bought the rights to the game from Magie. Although a common misconception, Monopoly was actually made in favor of capitalism, and was actually targeting landlords in particular. However, this misnomer can be forgiven, as Lizzie believed the land taxes should go into welfare, making a system similar to that in the Nordic nations(which are constantly referred to as socialist even though they are not). tl;dr: monopoly isn't socialist.

REST IN PEACE MIKE GRAVEL

Landlords? More like Cringelords!

I really love the opportunities these short take videos present! Much easier to share with friends and family while still packing quite a punch. Ty for doing what you do Gravel Institute

Where can I find the alternative rules to this game, I kinda want to try lol

It's a better day when Second Thought and The Gravel Institute upload on the same day.

My condolences for your loss of Mike Gravel.

Comment for the algorithm gods.

i didn't realize there was supposed to be a second set of rules!! now i really want to play it with the prosperity rules...

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And where can i find the other game rules?

Come on now! You're all thinking it. "And you must beeee the monopoly guy!!" "Hey...thanks for the free parking."

Very very well made short

Except no. This is just false, and spreading false knowledge on the Fixed pie fallacy.

Also: Monopoly is an over-long, soul-crushing game that rests on way too few decisions, involves too much luck, inevitably leaves some players without a chance of winning, takes entirely too much time to resolve once all the important decisions have been made, and is _over_ long before it _ends_.

The trouble with treating real life with game theory is that you can't go home at the end.

You must not need to play until the other players run out of money in the prosperity version b/c Monopoly always takes forever already. That would make it even worse. But yeah I always thought it was created to show problems of monopolies but also it's a fun game to play that way apart from the taking too long issue.

These are so consistently well produced. Good work guys!

As much as I appreciate your videos and will eventually start donating to the Patreon; is it possible to uncover the prosperity rules and link them to this video? That way, anybody with a monopoly set of any version can experiment with the prosperity rules to see how it plays out compared to the ruthless version we are all so familiar with. Thanks again for your videos, I have been inspired by the Civil War and Austrian housing videos, and I will eventually donate to the patreon.

Short, to the point, educational, powerful. This. More of this. This is how we win.

I played a game against a computer program for over 30 hours once. I just quit as neither of us were gonna win.

RIP Mike Gravel!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Well it doesn't surprise me that the game with the most potential for one to get ahead, is the one that those guys decided to focus their marketing on. The way I see it, the game where you get a slice of the other players' estate is the game where going to prison is the best thing that can happen for you lol (solved by an easy fix where you don't earn money in jail I know). I just don't think it has to have been immoral for the parker brothers to focus on that one ruleset, and I felt that the video strongly implied that it was.

I can say that I’m the one of the most socialist people I know by person. But I’ve always won at monopoly after adopting tactics used by Rockefeller, I think playing monopoly and brutally winning can explain you the faults of capitalism, but only if before you’ve also lost.

In EVERY encounter, the colonizer / capitalist shames his invented devil.

Where can we find the other rule set?

is there anywhere I can get the other version of monopoly?

This video is completely ignoring the fact that Elizabeth Maggie wasn’t a socialist, she was a Georgist. She specifically made The Landlord’s Game as an educational game on Georgism. Georgism is fine with the private ownership of capital; it’s not fine with the private ownership of natural resources, like land. Get your facts right. The second set of rules that have been dropped in Monopoly, that was mentioned in the video were the Georgist set. They allowed the players to keep the value from the houses and hotels build on the land, but appropriated the value from the land with a land value tax, one of the central tenets of Georgism.

It should be noted that this game is more georgist, which is rooted more in a classical liberal tradition and whose main tenant is the common ownership of land and only a single tax on the value of land, than it is left-wing.

Where to buy Prosperity Game for Kids?

This is probably why the most fun my family ever had playing Monopoly is NOT FINISHING A GAME 🤣

Omg. Add for Tuttle Twins before this video!😲

yup.....I learned about this ....but there's the thing....just playing monopoly on its own actually taught ,me that because i realized that the goal seemed to be one really rich person and the rest of the people are off the board with nothing.....

Monopoly. Destroying friendships since 1904!

I first learned this fact half a day before watching this video, this is such a huge coincidence

how had i never heard of this

I thought everyone knew that already, it’s literally in the name

Really dug the music in this one

I get the point and all, but it fun tho :)

I've always hated Monopoly, now I have even more of a reason to.