Chinatown is an excellent emulation of social behavior under Capitalism: some players unfairly receive better opportunities and easier negotiating positions, but there's juuust enough interaction to make success feel like the earned result of personal cleverness if you don't look too closely. Some players will attribute success to skill and/or other players not being shrewd enough, while others will be using every possible tactic to squeeze a couple extra bucks and still fail yet feel they should have done more, buying into the successful player's narrative.

But! What if you weren't locked in to your fate? What if you were given the option to... diversify?

Each player has ten share cubes in their own personal parent company.

These cubes can be bartered and sold at any value at any point during a typical game round along side businesses and locations.

At the end of the game each player pays out 10% of their total money earned to each other player who owns a cube in their parent company, per cube.

When players earn money from shares owned at the end of the game, it is not placed with the rest of their holdings earned throughout the game, but instead set aside until all share accounting is complete. This way money earned from shares is not then recalculated and redistributed up to their own shareholders.