Monopoly was invented to demonstrate the evils of capitalism (2017)

Re:Monopoly was invented to demonstrate the evils of capital... by mytherin on Wednesday February 26, 2020 @05:54PM (#22428351)

Monopoly is about land, and monopoly teaches people a correct view of land: land is a zero-sum game.

It is striking how much real-life has mirrored monopoly: when the game starts and there is plenty of land to go around, there are no problems. After a while, the land runs out, and the wealthy hoard the land and charge the others for its use. The wealthy then get wealthier and the poor get poorer.

We are now in the later stages of the real-life monopoly match.

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Re:Monopoly was invented to demonstrate the evils of capital... by refurb on Wednesday February 26, 2020 @06:02PM (#22428421)

There is still plenty of land to go around.

And of course, you ignore the cases where people bought land and the value dropped (e.g. Detroit).

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Re:Monopoly was invented to demonstrate the evils of capital... by ric2b on Friday February 28, 2020 @05:59AM (#22441947)

> and the poor get poorer.

They don't, though.

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