Not really the best metaphor, as in Monopoly you actually start with money. A better analogy would probably be something like:
Imagine you're playing Monopoly, but you don't have any starting money and all the properties are already bought up. Every time you pass go and collect $200, $180 of it immediately goes to the rich. That is how most people live their lives.
If anything it's pretty telling that the game only works if you can play like a rich person: start off with a bunch of money you didn't earn and the bank is always nice to you.
If the bank treats you like a poor person you just lose.
Is it though? Maybe I'm misinterpreting it, but the way I'm reading it is "Most people don't make money because they aren't investing their money". If you do a search for the group mention in this picture (David Henning Mindset), you get a page for a financial advisor. Both of these are leading me to think this post is referencing the "grind" mindset and how "you need to invest your money" to not be struggling.
Honestly, the real problem is that there’s anything you can buy for under $200. The starting money is based on however much generational wealth you have, with most starting with only $200. And if we look at the $200 as the amount you need to get by in a year (one trip around the board), you’d have to get exceptionally lucky to ever buy anything of substance, just like in real life.
Didn't the woman who came up with monopoly create it to teach the flaws of capitalist thinking? Then some guy stole it from her and capitalized. Classic.
The game was called The Landlord's Game patented by Elizabeth Magie. Further information on the relationship between it and monopoly has its own Wikipedia page here: History of Monopoly
The point of monopoly was literally to show how bad capitalism and monopolies where. It was created as an educational tool to show what happens when too much real estate is owned by monopolies. It was never meant to be a "fun" game. It was originally called "The Landlords Game".
That's the point of monopoly,
You start off with the same assets as everyone else, and though no fault of your own you slowly lose it as one person takes advantage of the opportunities that you didn't get, like landing on the best properties etc. Eventually the point of monopoly is that 5 of says 6 players end up going round the board, never quite dying, but never being able to progress, at all. That loops is whole point of the game. The hopelessness.
Now irl you don't start of equal. You actually start of even more disadvantaged then your opponent, so monopoly as a game makes an even more damaging point, that even in optimal conditions, capitialism is stupid.
Ok all from the scratch. Imagine you are playing monopoly, but there are 2 social classes : the bourgeoisie and the proletariat. And you are the 2nd one, you have NOTHING but chains and debt, so you are working hard till your death and all money you get is just enough to pay to the bourgeoisie, because everything is owned by them. There are 2 ways to quit the circle : jail or death.
That is how most of people live their life
I do hope this train of thought continues to propagate. It's the same train of thought that was pervasive in France, 1789.
It kept coming back over the next century as France tried different things (the Terror, installing the Bourbons, killing some Bourbons, etc) and whenever people noticed that capitalism wasn't being stable and people were hungry, sick or miserable, the cracked the guillotines out for more piles of heads.
I've never played monopoly, but I think I get the premise lol. "Don't pass go" is all I can tell you about the game... and I don't even know what it means