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Monopoly: Almost as Unfair as Real Life
Jackie Summers sees Monopoly as the perfect example of economic disparity, even with the premise of supposed equality among players. The premise is simple.You start off with $1,500. You circle the...
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Monopoly: Game Over
Jackie Summers, on the “haves”, “have-nots” and the conditions for social change.Last month, when The Good Men Project discussed classism, I compared it to a game of Monopoly.Here is a direct quote...
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14 Ways to Tell Your Son “I Love You”
1. Take him to your favorite restaurant Not McDonald’s. Not Burger King. Take him to a real, grown-up sit-down place and share a meal. Trust me: he already knows that this is where you take important...
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Can’t Win But For Losing: Playing Board Games with My Sons
Ben Railton makes the case for why occasionally letting his sons win at board games can actually be more empathetic and educational than leaving the outcomes up to chance. —Board games have been a...
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We Sold Bonkers. We Sold Life.
The Life spinner still sounds the same as it did when I was a boy.For Gary Almeter, selling his childhood board games was like looking at a movie of his life. Grandpa rode his three-wheeler down to...
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Friday Funday
I believe in weekends. Let’s give old fashioned fun times a roll.—I believe in weekends. I really do. We need time off from work. We need time to be in a separate space.That doesn’t mean a mentally...
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What Does Every Man Need to Know by the Time They Are 22?
I don’t think my parents knew my name until I was about 25.I don’t think I had a one on one conversation with either parent until my late 20s.And my friends were all trying to figure things out as...
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In Memoriam
In the summer of 1965, a few months before I turned 14 years old, entered high school as a freshman, and got swept up in the angst and bewilderment of Vietnam era adolescence; when I still suited up...
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Progress in Play: Board Games and the Meaning of History
— This article Progress in Play: Board Games and the Meaning of History was originally published in The Public Domain Review under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0. If you wish to reuse it...
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Buttered and Salty: ‘McMillions’
TV-14, 5hr 44min TV-Miniseries Documentary, Crime, History Now playing/streaming on HBO Go, HBO Now & On-Demand “Shelter in place” orders give us an extraordinary amount of time to catch up on...
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Monopoly Was Invented To Demonstrate the Evils of Capitalism
By Kate Raworth ‘Buy land – they aren’t making it any more,’ quipped Mark Twain. It’s a maxim that would certainly serve you well in a game of Monopoly, the bestselling board game that has taught...
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Are Facebook and the Other Tech Giants Now Beyond the Law?
A US federal court has ruled that the antitrust lawsuits that the Federal Trade Commission and 40 states had filed against Facebook failed to prove conclusively that the company is a de facto...
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Biden Begins To Redefine Capitalism
The July 9 executive order signed by Joe Biden on “Promoting Competition in the American Economy”, is the biggest initiative taken so far towards the much-needed redefinition of Milton Friedman’s and...
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Baby Formula Industry Was Primed for Disaster Long Before Key Factory Closed...
By Kevin Ketels, Wayne State University The conditions that led to a shortage of baby formula were set in motion long before the February 2022 closure of the Similac factory tipped the U.S. into a...
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How Big Pharma is Killing Innovation and People
Why is healthcare not a public good? I’m sure some of you have excellent economic-centered answers as to why it isn’t, but can we stop and think about how the systems we have created encourage us to...
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Here Are 20 Examples of Cissexism That We’ve Probably All Committed at Some...
By James St. James “Dafuq is cissexism?” That question’s a good place to start for an article such as this. Can’t follow the examples of something if you don’t know what the something is itself,...
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Inside the Digital Society: Does Twitter Matter?
By David Souter I’ve put off writing about Twitter here, since its recent change of ownership, to see how things would settle down. They’ve not, though, so perhaps it’s time to think a bit about the...
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Everyone Smile and Say ‘Fiduciary Responsibility’
By Hugh Jackson Nevada’s resort industry and Nevada’s for-profit electric monopoly are not seeing eye to eye. Again. There are a lot of reasons your power bills are higher, including bizarre and...
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New Data Reveals Which Board Games Maybe Most Likely to Cause Arguments This...
A new analysis reveals which board games are best left unplayed this Christmas due to their argument-inducing qualities; with Clue Conspiracy named the worst offender The data compared customer...
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Capitalism Is Killing Us — Let’s Start With Amazon
Lots of people order from Amazon regularly and don’t see a problem with it, or don’t want to see the dirty underside of this behemoth company. But just because many folks don’t yet see the problem,...
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