Rebirth: Japanese investor

   Chapter 495 Monopoly

Kobayashi Qingzhi understands that in addition to personally formulating a feasible plan for shorting Argentina, he has to secretly transfer elite soldiers from hard gold capital to Buenos Aires to establish a temporary office or register a company, and then it will be good. work.

   After all, there is neither a stronghold of Hard Gold Capital nor a stronghold established by Hard Gold Group. Not only that, but I had to fly back and forth between Tokyo, Japan, and Buenos Aires, Argentina.

   These are some preliminary preparations. After the war, he must be stationed in Buenos Aires, the capital of Argentina, and lead his subordinates to charge forward as a vanguard general.

   Masayoshi Kishimoto sat in the Tokyo base camp in Japan to conduct various dispatches and commands, and even went to Buenos Aires, Argentina to visit the scene in person.

   If it fails, not only the hard gold capital, but also the entire hard gold group will be severely damaged. If successful, the vast majority of Argentina's more than 40 million people would be living in dire straits.

   Among them, how many companies and enterprises should go bankrupt, how many people should be unemployed, and how many people should be displaced and homeless... There will also be chaos in society.

  Man, an animal, needs something to do. This money has more or less income every day or every month, so it is not easy to cause any trouble.

  Once you don’t even have these basic things and you can’t live, then you will dare to do anything. A lot of wealth that a country has accumulated for decades has been wiped away.

  The financial crisis scares the vast majority of people, and makes a very small number of people ecstatic. The former is afraid of not being able to live. As for the latter, the ammunition is well stocked and only waiting for this opportunity to grab money, food, and territory.

   In the afternoon, at five o'clock, Masayoshi Kishimoto got home from get off work on time. When he returned home, he saw that the Sakai sisters were still sitting on the sofa in the large living room on the first floor.

   Kishimoto Masayoshi walked towards them without hesitation. Before he went home, he also deliberately went to buy a "Monopoly" board game.

   "Since the two of you are in such good spirits, then play a game of "Monopoly" with me!" Masayoshi Kishimoto started to unpack in front of them, and pointedly.

   "How old are you, you still play this kind of thing that children play with." Sakai Rie blurted out and made her debut.

   "You're wrong. "Monopoly" is not only one of the earliest board games, but also the underlying capital principles that not everyone really understands.

  It is generally believed that the Monopoly game was invented in 1935 by the unemployed American Charles Darrow (Charles Darrow).

  The United States was in the midst of the Great Depression, and in order to address poverty, Darrow sold the game to the toy maker Parker Brothers.

  Unexpectedly, this game became an instant hit and became popular all over the world. And Darrow, who was originally impoverished, also turned over as a salted fish and lived a rich life since then.

   In reality, Darrow was just an unemployed con man who made a fortune by stealing other people's ideas. And the real inventor of the game, Elizabeth Magie, did not become a real millionaire.

   The original intention of inventing the "Monopoly" game for Maggie was to expose the evil of capitalist monopoly, not to indulge the public in capital games.

   She hoped that the final winner of this game would be the common people, not the landowners who made money crazy by buying land.

   But ironically, this game of exposing the darkness of capitalist monopoly was finally played by capital.

   Actually, there are two modes of Monopoly designed by Maggie, namely monopoly and prosperity.

The first mode of   Monopoly is called Monopoly, and its rules are almost the same as the Monopoly we play now.

   In the circular layout map, players can accumulate wealth by buying real estate and building houses to collect rent.

   Under the monopoly rule, there is only one winner in the game, and the rest of the players must go bankrupt before the game ends.

   In the second mode, Prosperity, the land is jointly owned by all players, not privately owned by anyone. As long as someone makes money from buying land, then all other players get money from it.

   Abandon unfair land privatization, and give back the wealth brought by the development of land resources to the whole society to achieve common prosperity.

   How does boom mode count as a win? That is, when the poorest person on the field can earn twice the initial capital, the game can be declared over.

   And the winner of the game is not one person, but everyone who participates in the game, and everyone is happy. It's more of a cooperative game, where each player needs to figure out how to help the poorest earn more money.

   So, we are playing the castrated version of Monopoly now, and there is only one mode of Monopoly. The question is, why isn't the full version of Monopoly popular now?

   Maybe it all boils down to the thrill of looting that everyone indulges in. Human nature is so greedy that we talk about sharing, but in fact, we want more in our hearts.

   means that everyone wants to be a millionaire. However, human history has proven countless times that there are very few people who can become millionaires.

  The ideal social model should be the second version of the "Monopoly" game. The prosperous gameplay is also the reason that the inventor admires and wants players to understand the most.

The result of    is the opposite, the first mode monopolized and swept the world. This is essentially a zero-sum game (also known as a zero-sum game, as opposed to a non-zero-sum game, it is a concept of game theory, and it is a non-cooperative game.

  It refers to the parties involved in the game. Under strict competition, one party's gain will inevitably mean the other party's loss. The sum of the gains and losses of all parties in the game will always be zero, and there is no possibility of cooperation between the two parties. ).

The reason why   Darrow was able to succeed, although there is a certain degree of chance, but there is also inevitability. That's because he made improvements to the original Monopoly game, making the complex game rules originally designed by the inventor Maggie simple.

   The original Monopoly board game, called Landlord’sGame. In the end, Darrow reached the pinnacle of his life by virtue of the cottage and became the first game designer in the world with a million-dollar wealth.

  The original intention of this game was completely subverted by man. However, in my opinion, it is full of real irony in it. " Kishimoto said eloquently.

   "What do you want to tell me after talking so much, Balabala?" Sakai Rie's intuition was telling herself that it wasn't just a simple game to play.

   After Masayoshi Kishimoto put the things in place, he smiled slightly and said, "You are just too impatient. I'll tell you while we play."

   (end of this chapter)