It's a badly designed game, or more that other games have come around that learned lessons from this game an others. Monopoly is too long given how much luck is involved. There's no real snowball effect that can tie things up quickly, you just take turns paying rent to each other until someone is unlucky enough to not to be able to pay. And popular house rules like getting paid for Free Parking makes the game longer and even more chance-based instead of fixing the economy problem in the game.

Most importantly, there are many other games you could play instead that offer a better balance and a generally more fun for everyone playing.

I'd rather play Catan, Acquire, Formula D, Tokaido, Ticket to Ride, etc. Depending on if I'm looking for a trading game, just want to roll dice and move my piece, I want to collect sets of things, or I want to dominate the board while ruining the game for everyone else.

Esta lugar es muy mal.

(Slashdot doesn't know ¿)

Kids are going to flip when they find out you can buy music albums and movies for under $5. And pick through piles of stuff that is completely new to them.

Still doesn't make it a fun game. Why does people keep buying it, does humanity secretly desire to punish themselves and their entire family?

True. And zone use changes from time to time, usually after someone petitions the county for it. My property and nearly all my neighbors were rezoned to RA Residential Agricultural Zone in the middle of the 20th century. Which is a mixed-use type that allows limited agriculture as well as a residence. The limits are weirdly specific in some ways, and vague in others. Like specific number of different types of animals. But you can grow what you want as long as it doesn't encroach on your neighbor's land. Grapes and fruit trees are common here, but one guy has fields of just about everything from corn to sunflowers going. I guess it beats maintaining a lawn, and the loophole is you can't water your lawn in a drought but you can still irrigate your crops.

At a national level though. We aren't a big picture sort of country. It's a collection of states that seemingly pull in all different directions, and the local politics changes with the prevailing winds. Nobody here is planning on what our economy will look like in a few generations. Which is why we're ultimately going to lose our dominate position in the world's economics.

Peak capitalism is about socializing costs and privatizing gains.

Ok, that's enough. Stop thinking about the children so much, it's creepy.

Why are we sometimes prepared to disrupt the ordinary activities of millions of adults to protect a handful of hypothetical children. But at the same time we have politicians running our respective countries that protect pedos or even war criminals.

And polonium tea and poison dart frogs. Man, it must be really difficult to live in Russia without having a bizarre "accident".

More painfully obvious than it was 20 years ago.

We're so small and isolated of a community that I don't think there is much we can do.

That's how a normal country would manage a valuable resource and vital infrastructure.

Microsoft forgot how to make GUI apps. Effectively flushed their entire business empire down the toilet and the world is scrambling to figure out what to do next. Some are running old software. Most are just pushing forward with what Microsoft releases and hoping to delay any decision making. I suspect only a handful will switch away, because for a lot of cases there are not many good alternatives.

Like a Russian nesting doll of doomsdays. We will remove one only to find another waiting for us.

Our fate has been a series of FAFO that has been decades in the making.

Both are simultaneously possible.

It soes not take much to pop a bubble.