Editing Capitalism (section)

== The Card Game ==

Capitalism is also the name of a [[card game]] (also known as ''Rich Man, Poor Man'', ''Presidents'' or ''The Great Dalmuti'').  Players are dealt cards, and try to discard their hands as quickly as possible.  Each trick is set by whoever leads -- for instance, a player can lead with two threes (the card value order runs from three up to two, as opposed to the usual two up to ace), and the next player must play a pair of fours (or fives, or whatever) or pass, and so on.  Whoever plays the highest cards in a trick wins it and gets to lead the next, and whoever is out of cards the first becomes the "rich man" (or "president" or "first" or some other title), and so on, until the last player with cards becomes the "poor man".  Some variants of the game have twos usable as "bombs" to win a trick (even if the trick is something other than a single card), but players who use a two as their last card immediately become poor man.

Cards are dealt again for the next round, but before play begins, the poor players must trade their highest-value cards to the rich ones (who may give whatever cards they please).  For example, in an eight-player game (usually played with two decks of cards), #8 trades three cards with #1, #7 trades 2 with #2, and #6 trades 1 with #3.  Hence the name: the rich get richer, and the poor get poorer.  The only consolation to the poor is that the poor man leads the first trick.