• acedude1234@lemmy.fmhy.ml
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      1 year ago

      Is it though? Maybe I’m misinterpreting it, but the way I’m reading it is “Most people don’t make money because they aren’t investing their money”. If you do a search for the group mention in this picture (David Henning Mindset), you get a page for a financial advisor. Both of these are leading me to think this post is referencing the “grind” mindset and how “you need to invest your money” to not be struggling.

      Is this the idea that antiwork subscribes to?

      • tracyspcy@lemmy.ml
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        1 year ago

        Oh lol i even haven’t noticed that watermark with name :) if you will look at it from that angle it becomes awful and completely misleading :) workers struggle because the only thing they have is their labour / skills and in return they get only the amount similar to reproduction costs. So basically important to mention that there is no way you can buy something from monopoly desk on your salary ever.

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        1 year ago

        Nice work. Obviously the sentiment has been coopted by that group, but the metaphor when interpreted sanely holds.

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        Hmm, you’ve got a point. The lesson Monopoly is designed to teach isn’t “make sure to invest your money,” it’s “land-grabbing is evil and landlords are parasites.”

        Characterizing this metaphor as “‘grind’ mindset” is maybe a stretch, though.

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          Whoever thought this metaphor works to explain the “grind mindset” is dumb and completely missed the point of monopoly.

          They accidentally made the anti-work argument.

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      Honestly, the real problem is that there’s anything you can buy for under $200. The starting money is based on however much generational wealth you have, with most starting with only $200. And if we look at the $200 as the amount you need to get by in a year (one trip around the board), you’d have to get exceptionally lucky to ever buy anything of substance, just like in real life.