Monopoly was created as a tool to show children that absolute control of marketplaces—and things like landlords—are bad, actually. That pushing people out of the game and siphoning benefits toward the person who got lucky with the dice (or the person born into property, say) is fundamentally damaging to the whole of society. That rules of a game, as they represent our laws in society, can keep everyone at the table indefinitely, if we choose to make it so.

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