via FastCoExist
Commonopoly asks: What if the goal of the game wasn’t to crush other players under the boot heel of capitalist greed?
A now-defunct German art collective that went by the name of Big Hope has revolutionized the Monopoly board, making the goals less about accruing wealth and more about collective benefit, and called it “Commonopoly.” The new game, designed by Miklos Erhardt, Dominic Hislop, and Elske Rosenfeld in 2004, arranges things so that no one player is the banker, and they all have to collaborate on their moves.
“Unlike Monopoly, the goal of Commonopoly is not the exhaustion, through monopolization, of a virtual stock of goods, but rather the expansion and preservation of a self-propelling sustainable system of recycling, production and distribution,” the creators write.
Commonopoly, which has recently resurfaced in a couple of places online, demands that players brainstorm alternative economic systems through activities placed around the board. The players move counter clockwise, as per the instructions, and subsequent creative acts are to be documented in booklets later distributed to the public. Much of the game focuses on coming up with ideas for public spaces (in Taipei or elsewhere), as well as sharing home remedies for common ailments. You have to applaud the game’s Marxist kitsch, and maybe even the prescient, proto-Zuccotti Park flair.
The Latest Bing News on:
Commonopoly
- Feed has no items.
The Latest Google Headlines on:
Commonopoly
The Latest Bing News on:
Alternative economic systems
- Economic uncertainty can't stop cloud growthon August 10, 2022 at 9:11 pm
"Looking at the recent Q2 earnings, it was really pretty impressive from a growth standpoint," Fung said of the cloud providers. Amazon and Azure in particular saw robust revenue gains in their most ...
- Future taxpayers will shoulder burden of unprecedented €48bn pandemic spend – but alternative was “far worse”on August 10, 2022 at 10:46 am
The Department of Finance Tax Strategy Group document says the alternative would have been “far worse”, in the shape of a deep recession. It says approximately €48bn – around one fifth of national ...
- Invasion of Ukraine forces Northrop Grumman to seek US rocket alternativeon August 9, 2022 at 8:05 pm
The ripples from Russia's invasion of Ukraine continue to expand as Northrop Grumman announces that, in partnership with Firefly Aerospace, the war is forcing it to develop a US-designed and ...
- Scientists offer blueprint for sustainable redesign of food systemson August 9, 2022 at 9:19 am
New research describes food systems designed not by the logic of growth such as efficiency and extraction, but by principles of sufficiency, regeneration, distribution, commons, and care. It argues ...
- Transition to USD alternative will destroy USA's economic systemon August 5, 2022 at 7:24 am
The transition to a USD alternative will mean the collapse of the economic system of the United States of America, Aleksei Avdonin, an analyst with the Belarusian Institute of Strategic Research (BISR ...
- Opinion: Transition to USD alternative will destroy USA's economic systemon August 5, 2022 at 7:24 am
The transition to a USD alternative will mean the collapse of the economic system of the United States of America, Aleksei Avdonin, an analyst with the Belarusian Institute of Strategic Research (BISR ...
- Level playing field for alternative fuel mobility: Indian Auto LPG Coalitionon July 25, 2022 at 8:02 am
iBeat Analytics Ibeat 1 Year HTTPS To track article's statistics The Indian government should provide a level playing field for alternative ... emission-free mobility system in our country ...
- State Capitalism and the Return of Economic Interventionismon July 21, 2022 at 5:00 pm
Criteria include legal systems that provide for voluntary ... This yearning for alternative economic models is now deeply rooted, and not linked to global business cycles. In many developing ...
- What is Modern Monetary Theory? Understanding the alternative economic theory that's becoming more mainstreamon July 21, 2022 at 5:00 pm
Modern Monetary Theory (MMT) is an economic theory that suggests that ... think about government spending and has become a popular alternative theory as discussions about debt and government ...
- Google to allow alternative payment systems for non-gaming appson July 20, 2022 at 11:14 am
Google has announced that app developers will offer consumers in the EEA (European Economic Area ... "When a consumer uses an alternative billing system, the service fee the developer pays ...
