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[–] [email protected] 102 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (6 children)

Fun fact: Monopoly originated from "The Landlord's Game" created in 1903 by Elizabeth Magie, an anti-monopolist who designed it to illustrate the negative aspects of concentrating land ownership.

[–] [email protected] 50 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (4 children)

And we only play half the game. Public Housing is supposed to be on Free Parking, the same way Just Visiting is on the Jail space. Once you're bankrupt you go to public housing until all but one player is there. Then you start the Prosperity portion of the game, and everyone wins. Just like communism done properly.

There was also a much less popular version of the game called Finance! Basically the same rules as Monopoly, but with a completely different skin on the board.

[–] Zyansheep 2 points 5 months ago

The prosperity portion was based on georgism I believe.

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