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Except it doesn't actually do that, because the game has all kinds of rules to prevent the functioning of the market.



What rules prevent the functioning of the market? You mean how it just baked the results of market forces into the rents?


Markets are fundamentally about choice and trade offs. Monopoly is about runaway power dynamics created through random chance and force (you have to pay rent, you can’t choose not too).


Please tell me which part of the real economy means you don't HAVE to pay rent


The market isn't in landing on the properties, it's about buying them, trading them and improving them.


Can you expand on that?


1. you cannot increase the supply of property, or build something bigger than a hotel

2. rents are rules. You cannot be creative with rents. I.e. rent control

3. there are no predictable expenses to owning property

4. the only business you can engage in is property

5. there is no supply & demand at work

6. what properties you acquire is completely random

7. the outcome of the game is controlled by a roll of the dice. There is a strategy to Monopoly, but it is very simple, and soon everyone learns it and that ceases to be a choice

8. Not being able to collect rents on mortgaged properties is quite unlike any actual business

9. No interest is paid on debt

The biggest divergence from an actual marketplace is it is designed to be zero-sum. Markets are not zero-sum.




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