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.”

#boardgames

RT @CheeseMacro@twitter.com

Michael Hudson talks about the destiny of civilization: finance capitalism, industrial capitalism or socialism. It’s also the title of his book.

#EconomicRent #MMT #DebtJubilee #FinanceCapital #usury #UnearnedIncome

https://realprogressives.org/podcast_episode/episode-208-rp-live-with-michael-hudson

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/CheeseMacro/status/1616783724082864132

• #abolishtaxes to
• #superchargetheeconomy
• #sharetherents of #land and state protected monopolies to fund government and
• #makepovertyhistory induce #economicjustice and make people
• #valueourplanet

The current fixation with destroying productivity in order not to diminish the #economicrent accruing to those who claim to "own" our earth, our planet, our common-wealth is destroying us. Economists, politicians and the "Fourth Estate" are complicit.

• #abolishtaxes in order to
• #superchargetheeconomy
• #sharetherents of #land and state protected monopolies to
• #makepovertyhistory induce #economicjustice and make people
• #valueourplanet

The current fixation with destroying productivity in order not to diminish the #economicrent accruing to those who claim to :own" our earth, our planet, our common-wealth is destroying us. Economists, politicians and the "Fourth Estate" are complicit.