Chapter 495: Monopoly

Kiyoshi Kobayashi understands that in addition to personally formulating a feasible plan for shorting Argentina, he also has to secretly transfer elite soldiers from hard capital to Buenos Aires to establish a temporary office or register a company, and then he can do things.

After all, there is neither a stronghold of hard gold capital nor a stronghold set up by a hard gold group. Not only that, but he also had to fly back and forth between Tokyo, Japan, and Buenos Aires, Argentina.

It's all some upfront preparation. After the start of the war, he must be stationed in Buenos Aires, the capital of Argentina, and lead his subordinates to charge forward as a vanguard general.

Masayoshi Kishimoto sits in the center of the base camp in Tokyo, Japan, and conducts various dispatches and commands, and even personally visits Buenos Aires, Argentina to the scene.

If it fails, not only the hard gold capital, but also the entire hard gold group will be greatly damaged. If it succeeds, the vast majority of Argentina's more than 40 million people will be living in dire straits.

How many companies and businesses should go bankrupt, how many people should lose their jobs, and how many should be displaced and homeless...... There will also be a chaotic situation of smashing, looting, and burning in society.

Man is an animal that needs something to do. This money is more or less daily or monthly, and it is not easy to make any mess.

Once you don't even have these most basic things and can't live, you dare to do anything. A lot of the wealth that a country has accumulated for decades has been swept away in this way.

The financial crisis has scared the vast majority of people and left a very small number of people ecstatic. The former is afraid that they will not be able to live. As for the latter, they have stockpiled ammunition and are only waiting for this opportunity to grab money, food, and territory.

In the afternoon, as soon as five o'clock arrived, Masayoshi Kishimoto went home from work on time. When he returned home, he saw that the Sakai sisters were still sitting on the sofa in the large living room on the first floor.

Masayoshi Kishimoto walked towards them without hesitation. Before he went home, he also went out of his way to buy a "Monopoly" board game.

"Since the two of you are in such good spirits, then play a game of Monopoly with me!" Kishimoto said as he began to unpack it in front of them.

"How old are you, and you're still playing with this kind of kid's play. Rie Sakai blurted out.

"You're wrong. "Monopoly" is not only one of the earliest board games, but also contains the capital truth that not everyone really understands.

It is generally believed that the game Monopoly was invented in 1935 by Charles Darrow, an unemployed man in the United States.

In the midst of the Great Depression in the United States, Darlow sold the game to the Toy Makers Parker Brothers in an effort to address poverty.

Unexpectedly, this game became an instant hit and became popular all over the world. And Darlow, who was originally poor, also turned over as a salted fish and lived the life of a rich man ever since.

In reality, Darlow is nothing more than an unemployed scammer who makes a fortune by stealing other people's ideas. And the real inventor of the game, Elizabeth Magie, did not become a real Monopoly.

The original intention of inventing the game "Monopoly" for Maggie was precisely to expose the evils of capitalist monopoly, not to make the masses addicted to the game of capital.

She hopes that the final winner of this game will be ordinary people, not landlords who make crazy money by buying land.

But the irony is that this game, which exposes the darkness of capitalist monopoly, is finally played by capital.

In fact, Maggie's design of Monopoly has two models, namely monopoly and prosperity.

The first mode of Monopoly is called Monopoly, and its rules are almost exactly the same as the Monopoly we play now.

In the circular layout of the map, players can accumulate wealth by buying real estate, building houses to collect rent.

Under monopoly rules, there will only be one winner in the game, and the rest of the players must go bankrupt to end the game.

In the second mode, Prosperity, the land is owned by all players, not by anyone. As long as someone makes money from buying land, then all other players get money from it.

We will abandon unfair land privatization and give back the wealth brought about by the development of land resources to the whole society to achieve shared prosperity.

What does it mean to win in boom mode? When the poorest person on the floor earns twice the initial bankroll, the game is over.

And the winner of the game is not one person, but everyone who participates in the game, and everyone is happy. It's more of a co-op game, where each player needs to think about how to help the poorest make more money.

Therefore, we are now playing the castrated version of Monopoly, and there is only one mode of monopoly. Then the question arises, why isn't the full version of Monopoly popular now?

Probably, at the end of the day, it's everyone who indulges in the thrill of plunder. Human nature is greedy like this, saying that it is sharing, but in fact, in the heart, it wants more.

That is, everyone wants to be a monopoly. However, human history has proven countless times that this person who can become a monopoly is a very small number after all.

The ideal social model should be the second version of the "Monopoly" game, and the prosperous gameplay is also the truth that the inventor admires and wants players to understand.

On the contrary, the first model monopolized and swept the world. This is essentially a zero-sum game (also known as a zero-sum game, as opposed to a non-zero-sum game, which is a concept of game theory and a non-cooperative game.

It refers to the parties involved in the game, under strict competition, the gain of one party must mean the loss of the other party, the sum of the gains and losses of the parties to the game is always "zero", and there is no possibility of cooperation between the two parties. )。

The reason why Darlow was able to succeed is that although there is a certain amount of chance, there is also inevitability. That's because he made improvements to the original Monopoly game, making the complex rules that were originally designed by inventor Maggie simpler.

The original Monopoly board game, called Landlord's Game. In the end, Darlow reached the pinnacle of his life with a copycat and became the world's first game designer with a million-dollar fortune.

The original purpose of this game has been completely subverted. However, it seems to me that there is a real irony in it. Kishimoto said eloquently.

"What do you want to tell me after all this talk?" said Rie Sakai's instincts, telling herself that it wasn't just about playing a game.

After Masayoshi Kishimoto put things in place, he smiled slightly: "You are just too impatient." We'll tell you while we play. ”

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