The history of Monopoly can be traced back to 1903, when American anti-monopolist Lizzie Magie created a game called The Landlord's Game that she hoped would explain the single-tax theory of Henry George as laid out in his book Progress and Poverty. She devised the key features of the game. It was intended as an educational tool to illustrate the negative aspects of concentrating land in private monopolies.

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Imagine playing Monopoly but at the start one player owns every tile and they all have hotels on them

So you're saying I should monopolise the railroads? I'm taking notes

You go around and just collect money?

Imagine collecting $0 at go and having to negotiate to work for the player that already owns all the properties on the board just to get monopoly money.

In monopoly, each player is given 1,500 money units before the game starts. Imagine one player starts with everyone's 1500 added together and given to them, and all the other players start which nothing. Now you have the real world!

And that's how UBI works as well :)

Why can’t you just buy assets?