Chapter 495: Monopoly

Kobayashi Kiyoshi understood that, in addition to personally formulating a feasibility plan for shorting Argentina, he would also have to secretly deploy the best and brightest from Hard Gold Capital to Buenos Aires to set up a temporary office or register a company, and then only then would he be able to get things done.

After all, there is neither a stronghold of Hard Gold Capital nor a stronghold set up by the Hard Gold Group there. Not only that, one had to fly back and forth between Tokyo, Japan and Buenos Aires, Argentina.

This was all some preliminary preparation. After the war started, he himself would certainly be based in Buenos Aires, the capital of Argentina, and lead his subordinates as a vanguard general to the front.

Masayoshi Kishimoto sat in the center of the main camp in Tokyo, Japan, to carry out all kinds of scheduling and command, and will even personally come to Buenos Aires, Argentina, to be present at the scene.

If it fails, not only the hard gold capital, but also the entire hard gold group will be greatly injured. If it succeeds, the vast majority of Argentina’s 40 million people will live in dire straits.

How many companies and businesses would have closed down and gone bankrupt, how many people would have lost their jobs, and how many would have been displaced and homeless …… society would have been in a state of chaos, with vandalism and looting.

Human beings are animals that need something to do. The money more or less every day or monthly income, it is not easy to create any chaos.

Once even these basic things are gone, can’t live, then it is bold to do anything. A lot of the wealth that a country has accumulated for decades has just been scraped away.

The financial crisis scares the vast majority of people and makes an extremely small number of people ecstatic. The former are afraid of not being able to live. As for the latter, they have stocked up their ammunition and are just waiting for this opportunity to grab money, food and land.

In the afternoon, at five o’clock, Masayoshi Kishimoto returned home from work on time. When he returned home, he saw that the Sakai sisters were still sitting on the sofa in the living room on the first floor.

Without hesitation, Masayoshi Kishimoto walked towards them. He had also made a point to buy a Monopoly board game before he went home.

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

“How old are you to be playing this kind of thing that kids play with.” Rie Sakai blurted out.

“You’d be wrong. Not only is Monopoly one of the earliest board games, but it contains a capitalization that not everyone really understands.

It is generally believed that the game of Monopoly was invented in 1935 by Charles Darrow, an unemployed American.

At that time, the United States was in the midst of the Great Depression, and in order to solve the poverty, Darrow sold the game to the toy manufacturer Parker Brothers (Parker Brothers).

Unexpectedly, the game became a hit and became popular all over the world. The original poor and desperate Darrow also once salted fish turn over, from then on to live the life of a rich man.

In reality, Darrow is an unemployed con artist who made a fortune by plagiarizing other people’s ideas. The real inventor of the game, Mar – Elizabeth Magie – did not become a real Monopoly.

The original purpose of inventing the Monopoly game for Magie was precisely to expose the evils of capitalist monopoly, not to addict the public to the game of capital.

She wanted the final winner of this game to be the ordinary people of the populace, not the landowners who were wildly enriching themselves by buying up land.

But ironically, this game, which exposes the darkness of capitalist monopoly, ends up being played by capital.

In fact, the Monopoly designed by Maggie has two modes, 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 ring layout of the map, players can accumulate wealth by buying real estate, building houses to collect rent.

Under the monopoly rule, there will only be one winner in the end of the game, and the rest of the players must go bankrupt before the game is over.

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

Instead of unfairly privatizing land, the wealth generated from the development of land resources is given back to the entire community to achieve shared prosperity.

So how does the prosperity model win? It is when the poorest person on the field can earn twice the initial capital, then the game can be declared over.

The winner of the game is not one person, but everyone involved in the game, and everyone is happy. It’s more of a cooperative game where each player needs to think about how they can help the poorest of the poor make more money.

So what we’re playing now is a neutered version of Monopoly, with only monopoly as a model. Then the question arises, why is it not the full version of Monopoly that is popular now?

It probably boils down to the fact that everyone is still addicted to the thrill of looting. Human nature is so greedy that it verbalizes sharing, but in reality, the heart wants more.

That is, everyone wants to be rich. However, human history has proved countless times that the number of people who can become rich is extremely small.

The ideal social model would have been the second version of the Monopoly game, the prosperity gameplay, and the truth that the inventor pushed and most wanted the players to understand.

It turned out to be the opposite, with the first model monopolizing and taking the world by storm. This is essentially above a zero-sum game (also known as a zero-sum game, as opposed to a non-zero-sum game, is a concept of game theory, is a non-cooperative game.

It refers to the parties involved in the game, in the strict competition, one party’s gain necessarily means that the other party’s loss, the game of the parties’ gains and losses add up to the total sum of zero, the two sides do not exist in the possibility of cooperation). .

There is a certain amount of chance, but there is also inevitability, in Darrow’s success. That lies in the fact that he improved on the original Monopoly game, resulting in a simplicity of the rules of the complex game originally devised by its inventor, Marge.

The original Monopoly board game was called Landlord’s Game, and eventually Darrow made his way to the top of the heap, becoming the world’s first multi-millionaire game designer.

The original intent of the game was completely subverted. However, in my opinion, it is full of realistic irony.” Justice Kishimoto spoke eloquently.

“After you blah blah blah, what exactly are you trying to tell me?” Rie Sakai’s intuition was telling her that there was more to it than just playing a game, she said.

After Masayoshi Kishimoto set things up, he smiled slightly and said, “You’re just too impatient. Let’s play while I tell you.”