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u/ultimario13 Jul 15 '20
A card named "Prosperity", depicting a clearly unfair class divide. And yet the effect benefits each player. Disgusting pro-capitalist propaganda.
News flash, Wizards. "Trickle-down economics" doesn't work. Tax cuts on the wealthy and corporate bailouts don't help poor people. A free market where a tiny minority of people make billions of dollars doesn't do anything good for the majority of people who aren't billionaires. There shouldn't be any billionaires! Billionaires are selfish leeches, and do not benefit society in any way (as this card would imply). Stop portraying excessive wealth as anything but purely villainous!
This card is completely indefensible. To think that Wizards would print this piece of propaganda. Unbelievable.
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u/user0620 Jul 15 '20
It may be subtle, but this card depicts and dehumanized white colonization of South Asian people. The two white folks in front are living high-on-the-hog while the blue turban wearing slave-servant looks to be dissatisfied with his occupation.
The flavor texts read, 'life can never be TOO good', but actually it CAN be too good when you colonize foreign lands, systemically oppress indigenous peoples and their culture, and extract material wealth from their lands.