As a game for all, Monopoly has many fans of all ages. A few days ago, a friend with a net worth of over 10 million said: "All his current business methods were learned from playing Monopoly." At the time, I just thought it was a modest statement from a successful person, but if you think about it carefully, in fact, if It’s easy to make money if you can use Monopoly skills flexibly. Why? Because the design of the Monopoly game is inseparable from economics.
The game "Monopoly" was not actually created for entertainment. It was a sandbox exercise to expose the evils of capitalism. In 1903, a woman named Lizzie Magie applied for a patent for her newly invented board game, "The Landlord's Game." In the Social Impact column of the application form, there is this sentence: The game patent aims to show the adverse economic effects of land monopoly and the feasibility of using land value tax as a remedy. A naked expression of views on the monopoly land economy.
This is the predecessor of the game, and this Ms. Maggie is a fan of Henry George, a famous American economist in the 19th century. Henry George has a book called "Progress and Poverty" (Progress and Poverty). The core point of the book is that the economic model in which capitalists continue to acquire real estate and collect rent from passers-by will eventually lead to the rich getting richer and the poor getting richer. The poorer you get, the winner takes all and everyone else goes bankrupt.
Later, this game entered university campuses and became a deduction tool for economics professors and students. During this period, more financial tools were added , and was named "The Fascinating Game of Finance".
After many changes, the "Monopoly" series of computer games developed by Yao Zhuangxian, the well-known father of Fairy Sword, has officially entered the attention of the domestic public. Although it is a game, it contains the laws of capitalism that the older generation of economists with both virtue and skill want to convey.
If you grasp these laws, you will naturally be like a fish in water and even more powerful in the wave of market economy. Let’s take the most classic “Monopoly 4” as an example (this is the one I played when I was a kid), and I’ll talk to you about the economic principles behind the game in a serious manner.
The most basic way to play the Monopoly game is to buy land and build a house, and then collect tolls from people who come to your site to gain profits. In the game, the chessboard is only so big, and the land resources are limited. They will be divided up by everyone in the end. At this time, people with less land are more passive and have to pay tolls wherever they go (the tolls will also increase with inflation. A rising tide lifts all boats) until it finally goes bankrupt and is out of business.
So when you go to any vacant land and face the option of whether to buy the land thrown up on the screen, always choose "yes". When faced with whether to build a building on the land you purchased, always choose "yes".
If you have developed a good habit of buying houses randomly through the Monopoly game, you will not miss the real estate trend of the past 20 years.
Of course, in the Monopoly game, you will find that the better the location (there is a park nearby), the better the real estate in northern Shanghai and Guangzhou (in the game, land in Guangzhou is sold for 2,000, and land in Lanzhou is sold for 800). Although buying The price is high, but the tolls collected are also high. If a five-story building is built on the land in Beijing, Shanghai and Guangzhou, wouldn't it be a pleasure to rent it out?
The returns from early investment in real estate properties in first-tier cities will be far greater than those from investment in eighteenth-tier cities. With limited land resources, the value of assets will only get higher and higher. How consistent is this? Reality.
As the saying goes, the first loser is the richest man.
In the Monopoly game, honestly buying land, building a house and collecting rent is just like working honestly for a dead salary in real life. If you don’t starve yourself to death, you will definitely not be able to advance to the rich list.
Everyone is racing, who is faster than who? If you want to achieve a great leap forward in wealth at this time, you need to make good use of leverage and take reasonable debt.
In the Monopoly game, if you pass by a bank, you must borrow money from the bank (the loan amount is equal to the player's assets), and then use the money to buy, buy, buy land, buy stocks. stocks, which allows capital to expand at a rate of X2.
Here is another trick that is even more amazing, which is to buy bank stocks until you buy yourself into the bank's board of directors and become the chairman. At this time you will find that you can directly call bank deposit financing (the total deposits of other players) and use their money to earn their money.
Looking at the current society, corporate bosses basically use leverage effectively to develop, and there are also a large number of corporate shareholders in banks. It can be seen that every step in Monopoly is reality.
When Ms. Maggie designed the Monopoly game, there were actually two versions.
The monopoly version is the Monopoly game we are familiar with now. Everyone competes for real estate. In the end, the big landowner takes it all and everyone else goes bankrupt.
In the winning version, the land is jointly owned by all players. As long as someone makes money from land development, everyone else can share the benefits.
What are the winning conditions of the game? When the poorest person on the field earns twice the initial bankroll, then everyone wins the game together. In other words, the entire game depends on everyone's "cooperation" to achieve "the best win".
As mentioned earlier, Ms. Maggie opposes private land ownership and advocates public ownership of land, and the Monopoly game is a tool used to illustrate her views. As a result, she was slapped in the face after the game was put on the market. No one cared about the winning version, while the monopoly version became a hit.
Therefore, in the Monopoly game, you can also find various props used to deceive people. How can people wander around the world without getting stabbed? Isn’t this the real society?
Well, in reality, everyone just likes the excitement of the monopoly version, where you deceive the poor and the rich, forcing everyone to a dead end.
We often say "one luck, two fate and three feng shui", which is vividly reflected in Monopoly.
First of all, every step you take depends on rolling a dice. The randomly appearing points are the number of steps you take, which in turn puts the player in different situations. Although everyone's assets are equal when you first enter the market, after a few rounds you will find that everyone's assets have become significantly different.
In addition to the randomness of dice rolling throughout, you can also meet the big and small gods of wealth in Monopoly. At this time, if there is a god to help, you will get twice the result with half the effort. When you meet the Big Poor God or the Little Poor God, you will have to spend a lot of money and double the toll. In addition to the Eastern gods, Monopoly 4 also introduces Western angels and demons. The land that the angels pass by will be blessed and the houses will automatically add a new layer, while the demons have the opposite effect.
From the first generation of Monopoly board games to computer games, a big question mark chessboard has always been an indispensable element. When players walk on it, a series of random events will be triggered, and you may be violent overnight. You can be rich, but you can also become extremely poor overnight.
All we can do is to do our best and obey fate. This is realistic enough!
Needless to say, every time I play the game, I adhere to the concept of buying, buying, buying. I play to the maximum fixed assets, but I almost spend all the cash on hand. I accidentally walk into someone The site was robbed of money, and the cash was not enough to pay. It was instantly bankrupt and Game Over.
In fact, in real life, many big bosses die when their capital chain breaks.
I always thought that the average wealth card in the Monopoly game was used by the poor against the rich. But after my friend shared his experience, it completely overturned my three views. When I was a kid, I played Monopoly 4. I could make a few million at the beginning and then it was over. Under the guidance of friends, you can play with assets of more than one billion in the future! That’s right, more than a billion! ! When you have more than tens of millions, you must remember to use Grant Thornton cards to distribute your money, otherwise the other party will go bankrupt and have nothing to play with.
If you keep playing the above model, you can easily earn hundreds of millions of dollars in assets.
When you are ahead in assets, remember to grow more leeks and harvest them at any time! Cultivate leeks for a thousand days and use them for a while. Raising leeks well can take your assets to a higher level.
Is the concept of coupons similar to the so-called social network resources in reality?
Finally, I have been talking nonsense seriously for so long, but life is not like a game where you can save/load files. I wish all the viewers to become winners in life! Play the Monopoly game of your life!