CLASS WARFARE, INEQUALITY BOARD GAME 'KAPITAL!' SELLS OUT AHEAD OF CHRISTMAS

[Judi Lynn]

BY BENJAMIN FEARNOW ON 12/25/19 AT 6:38 PM EST

In the run up to Christmas, stores in France couldn't hold on to copies of a board game that illustrates modern wealth inequality by forcing players to fight each other as they struggle to be accepted by the rich.

Kapital! was created by French sociologist and author Monique Pinçon-Charlot and her husband Michel. The board game pits working and middle-class players against each other as they race toward "tax havens" and ownership of luxurious cruise ships. As France 24 reported Tuesday, the game has become a victim of its own success and sold-out as more than 10,000 copies flew off shelves over the last three weeks. The "class warfare" game pushes poor and middle-income players to become the most "dominant," as only one player can join the ranks of the uber wealthy. Players accrue social, cultural and symbolic capital as they flirt with becoming the world's next billionaire.

"The subtitle of the game is 'Who will win the class war?' because the extreme extent of social dominance and exploitation in Emmanuel Macron's France has reached such a point that it is no longer a class struggle, but rather a war," Pinçon-Charlot told the French television station.

Only one player can come out as the winner and receive the opportunity to mingle among the world's wealthy elite at the game's end. The remaining players who lack the most amount of "capital" are left to dwell among the struggling poor and middle-class people with whom they started the game. And the race to become rich is not just about speed.

Only one player can come out as the winner and receive the opportunity to mingle among the world's wealthy elite at the game's end. The remaining players who lack the most amount of "capital" are left to dwell among the struggling poor and middle-class people with whom they started the game. And the race to become rich is not just about speed.

More:
https://www.newsweek.com/french-wealth-inequality-board-game-kapital-1479184

[TheBlackAdder]

1. And the other 999 players join the ranks of the proletariat. 😂

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But, before and after the game, all the players want the taxes lifted on the wealthy in the off-chance they hit the lottery themselves. Speaking of lottery, it just another control mechanism to dupe the average citizen into allowing the wealthy to have lover taxes--because one day that could be me.

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[applegrove]

2. They need a rich right winger in the game who tries to sabotage everyone

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but claims to just be about God or freedom.

[malaise]

3. Bwaaaaaaaaaaaah

hahahahahha

[applegrove]

6. They would start out with the most money by far and buy their way into keeping it.

[Wounded Bear]

4. I thought that was Monopoly...

[eleny]

5. Yeah, it's the original zero sum game

[tblue37]

7. Judi, your last paragraph merely repeats the one before it. nt