July 25, 2006
Monopoly Switches to Debit
Monopoly has reached a new low in gaming. Hasbro has invented a Debit Card for each player that you stick into a card reader and you type in the amount that you want to deduct. 
How are kids going to learn how to count money if there is no more MONEY involved. Even worse than that, how are they going to learn how to COUNT while having fun.
After talking with Zach and Vasken, we realized that since more people are using Debit cards now, we should be teaching kids to use debit and not cash. Wait a minute, that doesn’t seem right. When I questioned that comment to them, saying that we will always use cash for somethings.
“Imagine going to a 10-year olds lemonade stand and wanting to buy a $.25 glass (counting inflation from when I was young at $.10), you are not going to hand her your debit card and ask to deduct it.”
Zach being the person he is, piped up and said, “No, she will turn her laptop around and have you enter in your Paypal Account Information.”
OOO….the people that I work with
Anyways, more on the monopoly information when I get it
