When I start playing monopoly it was, to me, the best game in the world. My poor sister… I don’t believe she ever won a game before her 13’s. Not because I was gifted or she didn’t grasp the concept of the game, it was simply because I applied the strategy of the “occasional 500”. This is a simple way of winning the game, were you occasionally invest in yourself with a 500 bill, without the other players knowing. 10 to 1 you win. Amazing odds.
Despite the fact that I won all the time, I was getting less and less opportunities to play because my sister started not to want to play with me. She didn’t know how, or when, but she knew something fishy was going on. My ethic had the first challenge against my ambition.
Monopoly is still, to me, the best game to illustrate contemporary reality. Ambition is worth nothing without honour and ethic. It took a lot of years till my sister would play with me again. Is still taking…
Was during Zuckerberg appearance on Senate Committee, that I heard one Senator saying “You know, every-time in history companies grow too big, is this committee job to break them”. That made me think that what he is really saying is: If you grow big and without ethic, honour and sense of duty to others, society doesn’t need you and therefore you should not be as big. But who breaks the government or the systems when they forget the interests of the many? When people are too occupied or lost their politic beliefs that they can make things better?
That took me to another bad memories, Eurostar. A company that holds the monopoly of international train travelling from London. For more than 10 times they have been late/cancelled and consequently refuse to do more than the minimum. If they would have to compete with any other service, like any other company, the compensation scheme of Eurostar for sure would change to a more friendly and fairer method. If there was another company for sure Eurostar would improve and the competition would make everything better for the consumer.
That brings me to the essence of my point. If free market (economic system based on demand and supply solely), turn to be more fair than capitalism (economic system based on the competition between owners and companies), and I am not saying it would, but would the system change looking for fairness? Through history change in the world always happened when injustice becomes properer than justice. Since we are in a crise of countries looking to monopolise world resources, politics and economies, wouldn’t that be a good time to change? What more change needs than a bunch of well intentional people ready to fight for the future?…