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Monopoly was invented by a Georgist to illustrate the ills of land grabbing.

• WalterBright 5y ago
  You can't subdivide a lot in Monopoly, nor build taller buildings on it.
  • Apocryphon 5y ago
    So? That has no bearing on any ideology. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26881799 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26881799 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9050666 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9050666
    • WalterBright 5y ago
      It means it's not a free market. It is totally constrained by the made up rules making it a fixed pie game.
      • Apocryphon 5y ago
        Not all ideologies that constrain free markets are socialist. Georgism even has libertarian variants. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geolibertarianism https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geolibertarianism I should also note that zoning laws and other regulations make the real world into a fixed pie game. And those are often completely apolitical, their only ideology being NIMBY.
        • WalterBright 5y ago
          Zoning laws, rent control, etc., are not a product of free markets.
          • Apocryphon 5y ago
            And yet, they exist.