It was literally designed to be a horrible game: it was originally a teaching tool for Georgist economics, attempting to illustrate that rent extraction made on

It was literally designed to be a horrible game: it was originally a teaching tool for Georgist economics, attempting to illustrate that rent extraction made one player rich and everyone else broke. Then you're supposed to flip over the board and play "Prosperity", the alternative economic system in which all players prosper. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Monopoly https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Monopoly