The Landlord's Game
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The Landlord's Game
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#2For those in the SF Bay Area, you can play this game:
https://www.thegamecrafter.com/games/bay-area-regional-plann...
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#3There's also https://99percentinvisible.org/episode/the-landlords-game/
(via https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10685690, but no discussion there)
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#4Fascintating piece of history. The inspiration behind the game Monopoly was an attempt to educate people on the immoral nature of the current landownership paradigm. But interestingly, it is based on the same original classical liberal arguments that spawned free market philosophy.
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#5Fascintating piece of history. The inspiration behind the game Monopoly was an attempt to educate people on the immoral nature of the current landownership paradigm. But interestingly, it is based on the same original classical liberal arguments that spawned free market philosophy.
Kind of like how crypto was started as a reaction to broken financial institutions and is now being marketed as a get rich quick scheme.
Sometimes we become what we set out or destroy.
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#6Fascintating piece of history. The inspiration behind the game Monopoly was an attempt to educate people on the immoral nature of the current landownership paradigm. But interestingly, it is based on the same original classical liberal arguments that spawned free market philosophy.
“Immoral” is one dimension, but more importantly it’s to educate on the failure-prone nature of land ownership. It causes markets to seize up and capital to flow to rent seekers and away from those who deploy capital (capitalists) or generate it (laborers).
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#7For anyone curious about the philosophy behind this game, known variously as Georgism or Geoism, a decent review of the principle text, Progress & Poverty, was just posted on Astral Codex Ten:
https://astralcodexten.substack.com/p/your-book-review-progr...
(A bit long, but pretty comprehensive and hey, it's shorter than the actual book).
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#8Fascintating piece of history. The inspiration behind the game Monopoly was an attempt to educate people on the immoral nature of the current landownership paradigm. But interestingly, it is based on the same original classical liberal arguments that spawned free market philosophy.
Kind of like how crypto was started as a reaction to broken financial institutions and is now being marketed as a get rich quick scheme. Sometimes we become what we set out or destroy.
Breaking away from financial institutions and getting rich, are not mutually exclusive.
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#9For anyone curious about the philosophy behind this game, known variously as Georgism or Geoism, a decent review of the principle text, Progress & Poverty, was just posted on Astral Codex Ten: https://astralcodexten.substack.com/p/your-book-review-progr... (A bit long, but pretty comprehensive and hey, it's shorter than the actual book).
Extremely interesting book and theory, definitely recommended. Also contains a take on UBI, which might interest some readers.
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#10> With Magie's first patent having expired, in 1923, Magie decided to attempt to regain control by applying for another patent.
That's... unfortunate.