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Brandon's Impotent Rage
10th June 2015, 03:13
The board game, I mean.

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Although the creator of the game's predecessor, The Landlord's Game, was in fact attempting to promote Georgism, it eventually was further developed by socialists as a means to demonstrate the evils of private property and land ownership. The game was intentionally designed to be cutthroat and infuriating, because that was the whole point.

Futility Personified
10th June 2015, 10:57
Since I started working in retail whenever monopoly has come up as subject of conversation i've always mentioned this. I don't think people know what socialism is even as an abstraction now.