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Monopoly 🎃💰

Did you know Monopoly started as a radical critique? Born in the early 20th century as “The Landlord's Game,” it was designed by Elizabeth Magie to expose the brutal inequalities of capitalism—how wealth concentrates, rents crush, and property becomes power. Fast forward, and it's now a family board game celebrating the very greed it once mocked. Talk about a haunting reversal!

Halloween, too, has been gobbled up by the capitalist machine. What was once a blend of ancient harvest rites and spiritual reflection has morphed into a candy-coated, plastic-pumpkin bonanza—shipped globally with little regard for local traditions. In places like Australia, where spring blooms while the Northern Hemisphere carves jack-o'-lanterns, this American cultural export is a hollow, out-of-season product push. It's cultural imperialism dressed in a cheap vampire cape, turning sacred and seasonal into a year-round revenue stream.

Enter Haunted Halloween Monopoly, my Weird Web October experiment. I've twisted the classic game into a spooky satire. Every roll of the die, every property snatched, mirrors both Monopoly's buried critique of greed and Halloween's commodified creep across borders. Play to “win”—but at what cost to culture, community, and meaning?