(“It’s a game Patrick.” It’s a cultural artifact that we give to children to help form their values, in the same way we tell them stories. I want my kids to grow up understanding that building houses on Baltic Ave with intent to rent is righteous.)
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Imagine being so out of touch with reality that you think capitalism can work for everyone, and isn't based on the majority of people losing so a few can get rich.
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If you think capitalism is about the majority of people losing, you need to talk to the billions of people in third world countries whom it has lifted out of extreme poverty over the past 50 years.
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In fairness it does model rent-seeking–heavy environments quite well ;)
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... and those are on the rise as of latehttps://promarket.org/donald-trumps-economic-policy-pro-business-not-pro-market/ …
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Monopoly is not about capitalism in general. It is about the accumulation of rents inherent in the (insufficiately taxed) private ownership of land. Monopoly is an ad for the Georgist land value tax
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"Capitalism" isn't precise enough though. European capitalism isn't American capitalism isn't Japanese capitalism. Capitalism is defined by what _regulates_ it. Unregulated capitalism tends towards monopoly/serfdom. Acquire resources, acquire more, acquire ALL resources.
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this is where libertarians fly into a blind rage. A pure, unregulated free market would be a nightmare of coercion, monopoly, and fraud.
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Recommended reading is the Guardian's piece on Monopoly Game's left wing origins (the landlords game): https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2015/apr/11/secret-history-monopoly-capitalist-game-leftwing-origins …
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Apparently, that was actually the explicit objective of the game, but the current rules were just more fun. Source: https://99percentinvisible.org/episode/the-landlords-game/ …
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