Board Games

Was thinking about what I play board games for (fun + collecting mechanisms and their intuitions), in light of what I hope those mechanisms can do (empower the disadvantaged), and it started making me wonder if you could make a board game where:
1. Players start with deliberately unfair distribution of points/resources.
2. Resources could be purchased directly from other players at agreed/colluded prices.

Could we start a genre that develops the muscles for coordinating under severe imbalance? Seems like it could develop more relevant skills than the normal ("zero to win") type games today.

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lol, Dan, games are meant for us to ESCAPE reality, not turbocharge it

I am not interested in "the actual game of LIFE" or a real Monopoly simulator 😅

i'd rather kill the radio and listen to the rain hit.

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sure. but exceedingly few games are meant to, and the counterargument is that all activities lowkey train you for reality because reality is inescapable.

but if you're playing Farming Simulator to become a better farmer, that's not "play", that's "training" or "work" or "education".

You could argue some lowkey train you for reality?

lol yes, i get your point, the world is not black and white and we all contain multitudes

but continuing my joke anyway: we escape to resource management simulators because we have no resources to manage. farmers do not play Farming Simulator.

and games aren't for "nothing", entertainment has value

We can play games for different reasons at different times? Some books are for pleasure, why do games always have to be for nothing?

And if they’re for escape, why are they all tending towards resource management simulators?