being late to any party as my fashionable self always is leads to some monopoly-board-ass-problems too where because the structure of everything requires everyone to be so cutthroat or at the very least, play things quite defensively, it leads to a lot of consolidation and raised drawbridges

which of course also encourages bad actors to scoop up ppl desperate for friends and a social circle by telling them they'll accept everyone. with the hidden strings of joining their personal little army when they feel wronged and need troops to throw at the people they want gone