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Re:Monopoly was invented to demonstrate the evils of capital... by karamazov2 on Wednesday February 26, 2020 @04:11PM (#22427356)
But the transactions between players are zero-sum... An interesting, related point: zero-sum trading games (even ones based on chance [1]) always devolve into pareto/power law distributions when bankruptcy is a possibility. More a matter of natural law than "evil" capitalism

[1] trading game simulation: https://youtu.be/CsRLVZTYpGo?t=313

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