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standardtrickyness1 t1_iy6gyvm wrote

How do those parker brothers sleep at night.

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kevinds t1_iy6nhx1 wrote

>How do those parker brothers sleep at night.

They made the game hoping to show people why a single person owning everything was bad...

So working as intended..

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PlsNope OP t1_iy6u165 wrote

They didn't make the game. A woman made it to try and push people towards Georgism, which is a political ideology saying that land ownership and the benefits of such should be collectively owned by all.

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Schuano t1_iy7nsoy wrote

Was that Georgian in the twenties?

Modern Georgism is the idea that land should be taxed based on the value of the land itself rather than improvements.

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1iIiii11IIiI1i1i11iI t1_iy6x386 wrote

Well...they bought the game from some guy who stole it from a woman, and then when they found out about that, they went to the woman and paid her a paltry amount for the rights. So it does show the evils of capitalism, just not in the way originally intended.

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