A game’s ability to educate on the highlights and pitfalls of capitalism
NYC-based art and activism collective Chinatown Soup is responding to gentrification by creating a local version of the classic board game Monopoly. But this game doesn’t award the player with the most monetary capital at the end of the game. Instead, it prizes the player that purposefully develops an area while keeping its residents in mind. Soup founder Michelle Marie Esteva says: “Money helps you move around New York, but the Monopoly men don’t define New York. No matter how expensive rent gets, there’s a reason people want to struggle in this city. Our Monopoly asks why.”
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