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Re:Why We Banned Legos (2006) by Apocryphon on Friday February 18, 2022 @07:54PM (#30393344)
Monopoly was invented by a Georgist to illustrate the ills of land grabbing.
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Re:Why We Banned Legos (2006) by WalterBright on Friday February 18, 2022 @08:26PM (#30393533)
You can't subdivide a lot in Monopoly, nor build taller buildings on it.
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Re:Why We Banned Legos (2006) by Apocryphon on Friday February 18, 2022 @08:29PM (#30393549)
So? That has no bearing on any ideology.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26881799

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9050666

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Re:Why We Banned Legos (2006) by WalterBright on Friday February 18, 2022 @08:40PM (#30393619)
It means it's not a free market. It is totally constrained by the made up rules making it a fixed pie game.
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Re:Why We Banned Legos (2006) by Apocryphon on Friday February 18, 2022 @08:42PM (#30393631)
Not all ideologies that constrain free markets are socialist. Georgism even has libertarian variants.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geolibertarianism

I should also note that zoning laws and other regulations make the real world into a fixed pie game. And those are often completely apolitical, their only ideology being NIMBY.

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Re:Why We Banned Legos (2006) by WalterBright on Friday February 18, 2022 @08:58PM (#30393729)
Zoning laws, rent control, etc., are not a product of free markets.
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Re:Why We Banned Legos (2006) by Apocryphon on Friday February 18, 2022 @09:10PM (#30393786)
And yet, they exist.
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