09-13-2010, 03:58 PM
It's their game. I'll present the limited scenario in the parable of a Monopoly game.
![[Image: monopoly-board.jpg]](http://retro-vintage-bazaar.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/monopoly-board.jpg)
It looks like normal Monopoly the rules are laid out for all 5 of us to see. I choose the Shoe as I'm a tad partial to it. Things are going pretty good for me after a few dozen times around the board I've managed to assemble the Red Colour Set of Illinois, Kentucky and Indiana Avenue, with Short Line and Reading Railroad along with Water Works. Ahead of the game, livin' large things are looking up and I save up for a few houses.
All of them somehow never roll the dice and land on my property. However I build my little green houses and get charged a penance every time 'round the board citing property taxes. Then the rules suddenly change without warning.
Every time someone besides me lands on the go to jail space they instead go directly to free parking and get to take gobs of money from the bank. Regulations are put on my property and make it so I can't develop on it citing sustainable development laws instantiated by some committee I had never heard of and that some endangered gnat is living on my property. The houses are then taken away from me and I am not permitted to rebuild despite filing the proper paperwork and my pleadings to the other players.
It is then decided that I cannot own Water Works since they have given the contract to someone else. They threaten me with jail if I do not give it to the Top Hat guy for $20 (deemed a fair price). I comply.
They trade among themselves and complete all the other colour sets build a bunch of hotels. They somehow slip $1000 dollars from the bank every time they pass GO. I ask why - they claim it is a bank bonus.
What luck! I land on one of the few remaining properties left, Marvin Gardens. I'm thrilled to get an opportunity to buy it. Pfft, I'm a bit short on cash so I mortgage Illinois and Indiana since I can't build on them anyways. I manage to get enough funds from the bank to buy Marvin Gardens, provided I pay back $500. I'm desperate so I agree to the terms even though I know I'm being hustled.
I'm a few spaces from GO and I'm about to get $200 (well $110 after taxes) my next roll so I can pay off that debt that was hanging over me. Then the bank calls back my loan. I plead and say I can get them next roll but they take my mortgaged properties via foreclosure. Damn!
A 'consensus' is reached and they say due to a property devaluation they need to take the rest of my cash and properties. Double Damn!
The Battleship, The Top Hat, Iron and Dog all consolidate to form a numbered corporation. The colour groups are now all viable for building on, and permits are fast tracked. Hotels go up everywhere. I can't escape the foregone conclusion and eventually land on Baltic (with a hotel) and get cleaned out.
I go bankrupt. Game over.
I flip over the table in disgust and realize they have a money printing machine under there along with a couple of underage prostitutes that they are slipping $20s to. Unbelievable, how did I not notice this before?
I call a buddy to tell him about what I've discovered the next day, post it up on my BookFace page warning people to not to play this rigged game with these guys. Within 20 minutes of posting my BookFace account is closed .. WTF¿ Then the authorities come over and arrest me citing that I was using hate speech and posted defamatory comments. Also I was deemed a terrorist to boot and sent to a secret hidden prison in Kuwait.
![[Image: monopoly-go-to-jail-card_2.jpg]](http://devcentral.f5.com/weblogs/images/devcentral_f5_com/weblogs/macvittie/WindowsLiveWriter/CloudComputingApplicationsessionmanageme_3390/monopoly-go-to-jail-card_2.jpg)
![[Image: monopoly-board.jpg]](http://retro-vintage-bazaar.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/monopoly-board.jpg)
It looks like normal Monopoly the rules are laid out for all 5 of us to see. I choose the Shoe as I'm a tad partial to it. Things are going pretty good for me after a few dozen times around the board I've managed to assemble the Red Colour Set of Illinois, Kentucky and Indiana Avenue, with Short Line and Reading Railroad along with Water Works. Ahead of the game, livin' large things are looking up and I save up for a few houses.
All of them somehow never roll the dice and land on my property. However I build my little green houses and get charged a penance every time 'round the board citing property taxes. Then the rules suddenly change without warning.
Every time someone besides me lands on the go to jail space they instead go directly to free parking and get to take gobs of money from the bank. Regulations are put on my property and make it so I can't develop on it citing sustainable development laws instantiated by some committee I had never heard of and that some endangered gnat is living on my property. The houses are then taken away from me and I am not permitted to rebuild despite filing the proper paperwork and my pleadings to the other players.
It is then decided that I cannot own Water Works since they have given the contract to someone else. They threaten me with jail if I do not give it to the Top Hat guy for $20 (deemed a fair price). I comply.
They trade among themselves and complete all the other colour sets build a bunch of hotels. They somehow slip $1000 dollars from the bank every time they pass GO. I ask why - they claim it is a bank bonus.
What luck! I land on one of the few remaining properties left, Marvin Gardens. I'm thrilled to get an opportunity to buy it. Pfft, I'm a bit short on cash so I mortgage Illinois and Indiana since I can't build on them anyways. I manage to get enough funds from the bank to buy Marvin Gardens, provided I pay back $500. I'm desperate so I agree to the terms even though I know I'm being hustled.
I'm a few spaces from GO and I'm about to get $200 (well $110 after taxes) my next roll so I can pay off that debt that was hanging over me. Then the bank calls back my loan. I plead and say I can get them next roll but they take my mortgaged properties via foreclosure. Damn!
A 'consensus' is reached and they say due to a property devaluation they need to take the rest of my cash and properties. Double Damn!
The Battleship, The Top Hat, Iron and Dog all consolidate to form a numbered corporation. The colour groups are now all viable for building on, and permits are fast tracked. Hotels go up everywhere. I can't escape the foregone conclusion and eventually land on Baltic (with a hotel) and get cleaned out.
I go bankrupt. Game over.
I flip over the table in disgust and realize they have a money printing machine under there along with a couple of underage prostitutes that they are slipping $20s to. Unbelievable, how did I not notice this before?
I call a buddy to tell him about what I've discovered the next day, post it up on my BookFace page warning people to not to play this rigged game with these guys. Within 20 minutes of posting my BookFace account is closed .. WTF¿ Then the authorities come over and arrest me citing that I was using hate speech and posted defamatory comments. Also I was deemed a terrorist to boot and sent to a secret hidden prison in Kuwait.
![[Image: monopoly-go-to-jail-card_2.jpg]](http://devcentral.f5.com/weblogs/images/devcentral_f5_com/weblogs/macvittie/WindowsLiveWriter/CloudComputingApplicationsessionmanageme_3390/monopoly-go-to-jail-card_2.jpg)