Last updated on August 23, 2023
After a fan recently asked Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez to expound upon some complicated market principles, she finally revealed her surprising primary inspiration for economic theory: celebrated board game producer Milton Bradley.
Ocasio-Cortez began by citing examples from the Chutes and Ladders Handbook, explaining that Bradley’s vision of upward mobility had led her to develop a more “compassionate” version of his slightly difficult one.
“I think Mutton had some great ideas about ways to use dice to climb the wealth ladder,” she explained. “But then I thought, what if we got rid of the chutes? Why should there be a struggle to get to the top? Maynard had a good start on his idea, but I just tweaked it a little and turned it into my Theory of Ladders.”
Ocasio-Cortez went on to cite theories from Jenga, explaining, “Monsoon wanted us to understand that removing one piece of the economic structure could cause the whole thing to collapse. And I totally respect that. But I realized it would be even better if the pieces were glued together, so they couldn’t come apart in the first place. So I invented glue, and now our economy will be stronger than ever.”
She continued to elaborate on her ideas and finished, “It’s like Mallard said in The Game of Life: ‘You can be a winner.’ I just changed it a little so everybody can be the winner.”
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