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Monopoly was originally intended to teach about the evils of capitalism. Instead, it became a family destruction simulator.

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It traces back to The Landlord’s Game (early 1900s), designed to demonstrate how monopolies concentrate wealth. The irony is that it later became the world’s most famous capitalism simulator.

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