[RealLifeMama]

Originally Posted by domesticzookeeper

It just seems...pointlessly mean.

As you say, there are ways you could re-frame the game to reflect the new economy and how young people live within it Like renting property until you can buy a house but you still need to loan that house out to Airbnb for X months per year to pay the mortgage, or buying a car that earns you money as a Lyft driver but costs you money in upkeep, or juggling contract work with tax and health insurance payments, or basically any of the ways that MANY millennials live their lives Plus options for trade school vs. traditional college vs. no college, and what kind of debt/choices each of those afford to players.

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Or getting to the end of the game and realizing that Google and Amazon were the real monopolies all along

That sounds more like the Game of Life. I crack up when I hear my kids play that one. (not that specific, but same sort of thing..making choices like go to school but leave with 100,000 in debt or get a job as something right away.

I expect it is just a "fun" parody. There are a lot of awful parody games now. We were looking for actual games around Christmas, and a ton of them have these parody versions. Like there was one Clue game that sounded awful about trying to figure out what actually happened on Las Vegas. Ick!