Teapublican Economics explained in one picture:

[riqster]

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[SalviaBlue]

1. Good one... K&R

[riqster]

9. T&Y.

[2naSalit]

2. K&R!

[riqster]

3. Thanks. Wish I had created it.

That artist has talent.

[2naSalit]

6. At least you found it and shared it

and that is noteworthy in itself.

[Thespian2]

4. 'Splains

all the GREEDY BASTARDS!

[riqster]

7. And why we keep losing.

[Roy Rolling]

5. Finally confirmation

"Poverty is a choice", as a moron posted a few days ago.

[riqster]

8. I never knew we were all so lazy.

[Moostache]

10. Swap out "Atlantic Ave." for "Baltic Ave." ...

The way the game and system are rigged today (and really for the last 35+ years) is sickening and only getting worse by the day, but fear not, our corporate lapdog wing of the party will be by soon to berate anyone who cares or notices and slap them back in line with the third way mantra...

[riqster]

11. Ow. You are correct.

[SusanCalvin]

26. Thanks for picking my nit for me

I debated whether to mention that Baltic is the bottom of the barrel, not Atlantic.

Even with that nit picked, it is the simple truth.

[alfredo]

33. Atlantic Ave is now a for profit prison to house minorities from Baltic Ave.

[riqster]

34. Bleak but true.

[alfredo]

42. Notice it is blacked out in the image? Black Site?

[riqster]

43. I missed that part of the artist's "rendition".

[alfredo]

46. Artist and intellectuals are the first to disappear.

[Enthusiast]

12. Kicked and recommended a whole bunch!

[riqster]

13. Thanks. The artist nailed it IMO.

[JohnnyRingo]

14. Kick

Well put. Thanx for posting.

[riqster]

16. Thanks. I am spreading this around.

Hopefully it will get the point across.

[greatlaurel]

15. Great find. Thanks for sharing it.

That is one of the best graphics to explain our economic situation I have seen,

Thanks, again.

[riqster]

17. Picture, 1000 words etc.

I thought it was perfect.

[knightmaar]

18. It's important to understand that Monopoly wasn't really a game ...

It was called "the Landlord's Game" and it was designed to demonstrate this exact point.

[riqster]

20. Indeed. IIRC it got stolen and repackaged.

[Takket]

21. There was actually an article just recently in Smithsonian magazine about this and....

I found the link!

Enjoy.

http://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/monopoly-was-designed-teach-99-about-income-inequality-180953630/?no-ist

[riqster]

23. On NPR too.

http://www.npr.org/2015/03/03/382662772/ever-cheat-at-monopoly-so-did-its-creator-he-stole-the-idea-from-a-woman

[treestar]

53. So true. To win the game, everyone else

loses and drops out one by one.

[Takket]

19. reminds me of a joke I heard once...

A liberal and a tea party member are sitting in front of a plate of 100 cookies. All of a sudden, a rich person comes in, and scoops 99 of the cookies into a bag. He slings the bag over his shoulder and as he is walking out of the room, he whispers in the ear of the tea partier...

"If I were you, I'd watch out for the liberal. He's going to steal your cookie."

[riqster]

22. I wish it were funnier.

Too true to laugh at.

[underpants]

27. Funny and spot on

[BlancheSplanchnik]

38. .

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[Iliyah]

24. And they are so greedy they igonore fact and history.

The great depression was caused by greedy and slave type mentality. No viable salary nor healthcare. No money to spend, the dollar loses it strength which loses its value worldwide. It almost happened in 2009 but alas a man name Pres O kept us of a full blown depression.

Most of the Red States (run by GOPs) economy is going downward to bankruptcy, i.e. KS, WI, FL, Michigan, et al.

[riqster]

25. Oh yes. And more examples throughout history.

https://bluntandcranky.wordpress.com/2012/11/27/why-america-in-2012-is-like-france-in-1789-and-why-you-should-care/

[philly_bob]

28. Wonder if the poster's message is mathematically correct.

But too lazy to figure it out. Numbers are too big.

Is American top quarter's share of wealth really equal to all properties except Atlantic Avenue? Is their share really 95% of Monopoly money?

The rhetorical point of the poster is right. I just wonder about the math.

All praise to anybody who figures it out.

[riqster]

30. I lack the skills myself. But the point was bang-on right.

[philly_bob]

36. Here's a start.

Total amount of Monopoly money is $15,140. If the top 25% own 95% of the money, they would have $14,383, and the other 75% would have $757.

Total amount of Monopoly property is $5,690, Atlantic Ave is $260. So the top 25% own $5,430 in property and the other 75% own $260.

That's as far as I can get right now.

[riqster]

37. So dividing by three, each of the rest would get:

$252.33 in money and $86.66 in property. Since Monopoly does not have change, the three would be told to fight amongst themselves over the scraps, distracting them from the real motherfucker.

Thus helping said motherfucker to win even more and faster.

Shit. This is too realistic.

[philly_bob]

40. Rigster: mind if I post link to this discussion in DU's Weekend Economists Thread?

I bet someone in that thread can handle the math involved...

[riqster]

41. Go right ahead, send me the link.

I am math-challenged.

[philly_bob]

52. Here is link in Weekend Economists thread

http://www.democraticunderground.com/111665319#post42

Hope someone there can figure it out.

[riqster]

54. Coolness.

[hifiguy]

29. Perfect! nt

[riqster]

31. A pithy picture.

[blkmusclmachine]

32. Here's a better picture. It even has a glowing Cross in the clouds:

[riqster]

35. Wow.

[pangaia]

39. What's this Atlantic Ave nonsense.

it's really Baltic Ave.

[riqster]

49. More like Jail.

[devils chaplain]

44. Pull yourself up by the bootstraps, Uncle Pennybags!

[riqster]

48. He's too rich to fail.

[DrewFlorida]

45. Brilliant! A perfect analogy!

[riqster]

47. Yep. I was tickled when I saw it.

Then I got mad.

[ck4829]

50. Perfect, sums up every point of this 'school' of economic thought very well

One person has everything, everyone else is handicapped, yet we call it 'equality of opportunity'.

We're expected to fight each other for everything, including minimum wage jobs and basic security, yet highlighting that fact is what the media and politicians call 'class warfare'.

[riqster]

55. Yep. Divide and conquer still works.

[BlueCaliDem]

51. SPOT ON, riqster! eom

[riqster]

56. Agreed.

People need to share it.