As much as #Monopoly sucks because it’s a game of chance, my kids learned about #capitalism, how wealth is more a function of luck & circumstance, and why #landlords are amongst the most worthless people in existence.
Which is exactly what its inventor #ElizabethMagie planned: “[she] originally intended The Landlord's Game to illustrate the economic consequences of Ricardo's Law of #economicRent and the Georgist concepts of #economicPrivilege and land value taxation.”
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