Yesterday I watched my daughter and her friend play the Byron/Ballina version of Monopoly. It was mildly ironic and a little sad. A game of property where kids like these, without intergenerational wealth, won’t own property. Monopoly is a horrible game. Mainly because it never feels like a game. It feels like a reenactment of everything that’s wrong with our relationship with property. According to a google, Monopoly started with the name, The Landlord’s Game and was invented by a woman who only got $500 for the patent. Classic patriarchal capitalism in action! And nice work grooming kids into sociopaths so they can be ruthless property developers of the future. Yuck.