I grew up I a predominantly white neighborhood in a very segregated city, and I heard people harping on riots and unrest in the blacker areas and how that was bad for their neighborhoods. It wasn’t until I was older that I heard the argument that the buildings they were looting or burning weren’t part of their community. If a large company put a store in their neighborhood and it got looted, it wasn’t bad for their community became none of the success of that company was shared by the company - they were essentially just extracting wealth from the area. Some areas having already been flipping the board. We’re just getting to the point that more are ready to say “fuck boardwalk!”

Sadly, plenty of idiots still playing think THEY’LL own all the board one day.

Fun fact! Monopoly was created to elicit this exact response! You’re supposed to hate this and get angry at the inequity; that’s the whole point.

The whole world’s like this, why do you think fascism is on the rise again everywhere ? Capitalism needs that to survive having drained everyone from everything, it’s gonna keep happening again and again until we topple it.

Marx is 100% vindicated by saying the bourgeoisie produces, above all else, its own grave-diggers. From the Manifesto:

The essential condition for the existence, and for the sway of the bourgeois class, is the formation and augmentation of capital; the condition for capital is wage-labour. Wage-labour rests exclusively on competition between the labourers. The advance of industry, whose involuntary promoter is the bourgeoisie, replaces the isolation of the labourers, due to competition, by their revolutionary combination, due to association. The development of Modern Industry, therefore, cuts from under its feet the very foundation on which the bourgeoisie produces and appropriates products. What the bourgeoisie, therefore, produces, above all, are its own grave-diggers. Its fall and the victory of the proletariat are equally inevitable.

We are witnessing the slow collapse of a dying Empire. That’s why I keep a “Read Theory, Darn It!” beginner reading list on Marxism. All except one work has an audiobook alternative linked, otherwise there are text links directly to said works. It starts off with foundations, then builds on said foundations, ending with some practical advice on how to conduct yourself as a Leftist in general. I also include intersectional theory regarding trans and enby liberation, gay rights and history, and decolonialism.