The Dirty Bill: How Monopoly House Rules Mirror a Broken Technofascist Economy
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Sarah Kendzior
Summary
This article uses the metaphor of a family's idiosyncratic Monopoly house rules to explore broader themes of economic dysfunction, technofascism, and the need to break free from exploitative systems. The author contrasts the rigid, lawless internal logic of their family's Monopoly game with the similarly broken logic of the modern economy, arguing for a clean break from technofascist structures.
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"I'm playing Monopoly," I tell my husband. "This is Kendzior Sisters, not Parker Brothers!"
The absolute lawlessness of Monopoly is not apparent until an interloper intervenes.
Monopoly then reveals itself as real estate Ouija: a battered board indecipherable to the guest but airtight in its internal logic.
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