The need to change cap by 180 degrees (Part 4) Monopoly |25 January 2021
Monopoly is perhaps the best game to depict the capitalistic neo-liberal model to which nations foolishly adhere to. In this game there is only one winner and in the real world currently, that is China. The only time that events can be changed is towards the end, when resources are pooled and there is a strong collaboration among the losers. It would be interesting to up-date this century old game to include ‘Community Chest’ and ‘Chance’ cards as follows: ‘Lockdown’ go to jail and miss 2 turns. The national airline is bankrupt, pay £200 tax and go straight to Paddington Station. Your hotel(s) have become a liability, sell back to the bank at half their face value.
The neo-liberal model is not only structurally unsound, but it is narcissistic and ultimately self-destructive, for when autocratic China takes over the world we seriously risk being in a post human state.
The democratic model is weakening and is certainly not the future with capitalism being structurally flawed. Let’s take issue with the dollar, during the 2nd World War it reached a high of $1.50, today its value is around 5 cents. BITCOIN is currently doing well but would however be susceptible if the internet crashed, gold has also greatly increased in value but then one has the headache of storage. For 2021 a new crypto-currency is being proposed to replace the dollar, founded on 3 pillars: Gold, which as a nation the U.S. has little of, the dollar itself and nothing.
Yet we are dependent on the dollar here and falsely claim that we cannot control imports as we live in a ‘free market’. It is time to wake up as a Nation to the global agenda and to realise that the anarchy of the unregulated market is neither in the interest of humanity or our country, and is certainly not sustainable for the planet. If the free market principle was followed, then Air Seychelles would have gone to the wall years ago; thereby making those messages from the National Assembly incoherent and confusing. The ‘free market’ principle is being held up as some untouchable sacred cow; when in fact it only applies to the free movement of goods and services globally, not to people. One of the concerning proposed tenets of a One World Government would be to end international travel. So out goes tourism!
The capitalistic pursuit of relentless growth on a finite planet by traders drunk on stimulus and driving false economies towards global chaos, is clearly prepared to sacrifice democracy and free speech in the process, as we have seen with the Trump administration.