547 What Are Taxes Really For?

[Speaker to Animals]

We have LOTS of civil engineering work going on all the time. Roadwork. Bridge repairs. Hell, we really need to bury every last power line in this country ASAP for national security. There are lots of things people can do. If they find themselves unable to pay when they are physically able to work, then they can do all sorts of good work that improves society and provides them with meaning and accomplishment.

But then you'll be trampling on some union or other that gets paid real money for that shit.

Where I live we have road projects delayed everywhere because the Trump economy is so good. There's plenty to do.

[brewster]

We have LOTS of civil engineering work going on all the time. Roadwork. Bridge repairs. Hell, we really need to bury every last power line in this country ASAP for national security. There are lots of things people can do. If they find themselves unable to pay when they are physically able to work, then they can do all sorts of good work that improves society and provides them with meaning and accomplishment.

But then you'll be trampling on some union or other that gets paid real money for that shit.

Where I live we have road projects delayed everywhere because the Trump economy is so good. There's plenty to do.

Trade restraint orgs don't care how much there is to do. There's so much development here that electricians and plumbers are in short supply. That doesn't mean the guilds will increase membership.

[Fife]

Monopoly was developed to teach how Capitalism works.

But not in a good way. It was supposed to teach how rents concentrated wealth, a microcosm of how wealth creates wealth in the Picketty playbook. The story of the game itself is actually a great illustration of how creativity is often pirated and taken credit for by the most ruthless brillant "businessmen".

Said the creator:

“It is a practical demonstration of the present system of land-grabbing with all its usual outcomes and consequences,” she wrote in a political magazine. “It might well have been called the ‘Game of Life’, as it contains all the elements of success and failure in the real world, and the object is the same as the human race in general seem to have, ie, the accumulation of wealth.”

https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyl ... ng-origins

The "Picketty playbook" is the time-machine source code of Monopoly? Well done!

Indeed, the game of Monopoly is a true model of Western Civ and all of its greedy fail-designs.

I was kidding earlier, but IRL, you motherfuckers might do really well to back down off of the uncut meth of the game "Monopoly" and spend some time learning the hidden magic of the dice in "Yahtzee."

[Speaker to Animals]

Yahtzee is gay.

[Fife]

I know, let's have a Monopoly tournament for control of the federal reserve!

[Martin Hash]

Playing Monopoly as a kid established my perception of Capitalism, then for many years, out of vanity, I thought my own actions played a larger role, but now as a wise old man, I know that Monopoly was a good teacher indeed.

[Fife]

We should make Bill Belichick SecDef. SuburbanKulak said he's a master military tactician.

Now we just have to find the best Monopoly player in the land to micromanage the economy.

:goteam: :drunk:

[Martin Hash]

Monopoly uses dice.

[Fife]

That's why there are no dice in football or chess. Football and chess model warfare; nothing left to chance!

[Martin Hash]

That's why there are no dice in football or chess. Football and chess model warfare; nothing left to chance!

"Everybody has a plan until they get punched in the mouth." - Mike Tyson