How to win at Monopoly and make you friends hate you

[OtherMichael]

@nemomen

“let’s all be sociopathic plutocrats collecting wealth so we can use it to try to rent each other to death - the winner gets to watch everyone else sell their houses, mortgage/sell off their properties at a loss, and eventually go bankrupt”

That, really, was the point of the original game. Before PB or MB or whoever stole it.

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UPDATED to add references

History of Monopoly

 

The History of Hi-Lo

Of course the ancestor of Monopoly, “The Landlord’s Game,” was intended to be a didactic tool as well. It was supposed to teach the tenets of Georgism and the idea that for capitalism most people end up in a long, slow, and un-fun slog into bankruptcy…Which is why Monopoly is such a poor game.

Which is a comment by @simonize, who also obliquely referenced the origins @ above/73527/47