It seems plain that they’re playing some kind of home-brewed version of Monopoly here, one where you either get a lot more money or where property is a lot more cheap. MUCH LIKE LIFE, IN THE MIND OF YOUNG BETTY SPECTOR
I drew this strip back in June, and it has since become strikingly topical maybe! I don’t know where Betty picked up her ideas about, uh, “entitlements,” but I guess Mona has some kind of monstrous quasi libertarian views about some topics? Or at least wants her daughter to hold such views in order to develop some kind of fearsome, diabolical confidence? I don’t know yet.
There should be a new strip on Thursday. It is almost a certainty that Cathy will be in it, if you like Cathy.
Monopoly is one of the greatest indictments of capitalism ever made.
Even more frightening than Romney’s speech: http://www.opposingviews.com/i/politics/2012-election/audio-rep-paul-ryans-2005-speech-support-ayn-rand-opposition-social
Monopoly was like explicitly designed as an indictment of capitalism! It used to be called “The Landlord’s Game”
Re: Paul Ryan — I dunno, I can imagine he feels pretty embarrassed about saying all that stuff now, and who knows if that’s still his position? I mean a lot of people get into Ayn Rand when they’re seventeen! And by “seventeen,” I mean “thirty-five and ELECTED MEMBERS OF CONGRESS WHO HOLD POWER OVER BUDGETS.”