I recently ran into the blog of Mircea
(the guy who saved OpenBSD one of the most secure open source OS existing and author of a nice blog you should check out. http://trilema.com/ As well as http://mpex.co/ a advanced bitcoin trading platform with a 30BTC registration fee)
A background image of the game of Monopoly appears on his site it reminded me that I really dislike this game because it just represented what capitalism and its destructive main flaw the inevitable concentration of wealth into one singularity that cause the system to reboot through destruction.
I remember reading about the origin of the game before it became a way of practicing capitalism and teaching your kids how to be a good capitalistic killer at home.
This is the story More or less taken from Wikipedia :)
The Landlord's Game the precursor of Monoploy is a board game patented in 1904 by Elizabeth Magie as U.S. Patent 748,626. It is a realty and taxation game, which is considered to be a direct inspiration for the board game Monopoly. Though many similar home-made games were played at the beginning of the 20th century and some predate The Landlord's Game, it is the first of its kind to have an attested patent.
Magie designed the game to be a "practical demonstration of the present system of land grabbing with all its usual outcomes and consequences".She based the game on the economic principles of Georgism, a system proposed by Henry George, with the object of demonstrating how rents enrich property owners and impoverish tenants. She knew that some people could find it hard to understand why this happened and what might be done about it, and she thought that if Georgist ideas were put into the concrete form of a game, they might be easier to demonstrate. Magie also hoped that when played by children the game would provoke their natural suspicion of unfairness, and that they might carry this awareness into adulthood.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Landlord%27s_Game
Eleven years later in 1913 that fateful year the americans started paying interest/rent of the US dollar to the FED as well as the year that the IRS came to be through the ratification of the constitution.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internal_Revenue_Service
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_Reserve_System
