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I remember playing a board game in my childhood, what we called it as Business game. It was actually the Monopoly board game.

It was fun seeing our friends going bankrupt, it was empowering as an individual to buy assets and properties (or) that was how the game and it's rule were setup in order to kindle that selfish greedy aspect of us.

Games and their setups reflect cultural & social aspects. Even though monopoly was designed to educate people about it's dangers, the bourgeoisie took over.

Prasanna Venkadesh @prashere

In order to spread the cultural habit of growing together, we should develop, spread and play more and more games that promote collective interests and induce the idea of sharing, treating resources as commons and to become commoners.

One such game that we found out recently was commonspoly.cc The goal of the game is to stop your fellow players from acquiring public resources as private assets, i.e privatization

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