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Typically people losing at monopoly actually prefer going to jail and sitting there since it is preferable to having to pay for hotels.
Not that it makes the analogy much less dark though
Going to jail puts you behind due to loss of opportunity, and in the absence of remaining opportunity it only delays the inevitable. It also prevents you from gaining your UBI cheque passing go
I am more referring to late game when properties are largely bought and developed and the losing player is statistically more likely to have to pay more to opponents going around the board than they are to receive money from them. It becomes a stalling tactic to collect more money. UBIs are very important early game but barely relevant once the average hotel visit costs you 4+ of them
Admittedly it is also popular due to the free parking house rule that seemingly most everyone uses, but is not in fact an actual rule.
Technically once all the property is bought up there isn't any benefit to being out of jail except for Chance/CC cards and passing Go, but you'll lose more in Rent going around.
Late game, everyone benefits from being in jail.
Monopoly has always been a dark analogy.
I also find it funny that many people who complain about how long Monopoly takes somehow do so much to make it take even longer
Yup, they try to make the game more "fair" (i.e. help those who fall behind), but the game was intentionally designed to be unfair, so "fixing" it just drags it out.