Monopoly Board Game Goes Cashless: Barcodes Introduced To Track Players And Transactions
By Kevin Samson
ActivistPost.com
MARCH 8, 2016
When events that were formally considered conspiracy theories become the foundation of popular culture, you know an entirely new reality is being created. The 5th bestselling board game in the world is now embracing the onset of the cashless society.
The war on cash in the real world is taking place on many fronts – from penalizing the holding of it through negative interest rates; eradicating large-denomination banknotes; surveillance of it through Suspicious Activity Reports; or outright banning larger transactions.
Perhaps recognizing that today’s children might very soon not understand how to even use cash – or maybe to help to speed up their education and acceptance – the Monopoly board game is certainly living up to its name by promoting a future of centralized bank surveillance and management. Fittingly, the new version calls itself “Ultimate Banking.”
Monopoly has always been a game of dominance through property acquisition, involuntary rent, and bankrupting the opposition to ultimately control every aspect of an economy. Its 100-year-plus popularity in more than 100 countries and nearly 40 languages speaks to its global role in either social commentary or social engineering.
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