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[–] sp3tr4l@lemmy.zip 7 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

... and now add into that experience the knowledge that the game Monopoly was intentionally designed, 100+ years ago now, to show the evils and dangers of capitalism.

What you and your friends experienced in microcosm is what happens to all of society at a grander scale and slower timeframe, and the game itself was designed to cause the experience ya'll had, to illustrate this.

https://www.bbc.com/worklife/article/20170728-monopoly-was-invented-to-demonstrate-the-evils-of-capitalism