The New York Times reports today (free registration required) on a popular $195 board game called Cashflow. “Many players say the game gives them tools to gain wealth, helping them figure out ways to pursue their dreams by earning income beyond their 9-to-5 jobs.”
Though I have never heard if it, Cashflow sounds like an improvement over Parker Brothers’ Monopoly, that Depression-era game that drives home the false message that success in business implies success in a zero-sum game.
“I think what he’s done is very, very smart; he has recognized the consumer need for how wealth creation works, and how people get rich,” Eric A. Greenleaf, a marketing professor at the Stern School of Business at New York University, said of [Cashflow’s creator]. “In a world where people are more and more fascinated with things like reality TV, this in a way is reality wealth creation.”
