Post-Modern Monopoly!

Monopoly is a very popular board game. The history of his game is found here. The game was invented by a socially conscious woman named Elizabeth Magie who wanted the game to be a "practical demonstration of the [then] present system of land-grabbing with all its usual outcomes and consequences". It began existence under the name The Landlord's Game and was to be cautionary. It's a cautionary quality was lost over time when it was snapped up by Parker Brother and decades of play made it seem quaint. 

The game was inspired by Progress and Poverty: An Inquiry into the Cause of Industrial Depressions and Increase of Want wit Increase of Wealth: The Remedy written by Henry George in 1970. The book was important in triggering the Progressive Movement which the modern Republican Party is so intent pushing back. They want a land filled with vast wealth for a tiny few and grinding poverty for most, so as to allow the wealthy to garner as much power over others as possible. They have the money, now they want they want the power. The Golden Rule has no place in the game of Monopoly. Instead of "Do unto others as you would have them do unto you." the game promotes "Do all you can to get ahead and screw your fellow man." That edict is driving the United States and possibly the world into a great economic depression. 

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