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Monopoly

Nerd of Mouth

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Monopolies Politics

Each player starts with the same amount of cash and opportunities, even though in real life, race, class, gender, and a range of other factors inflect a person's chance of success. The game disguises luck as skill misrepresents the American dream and promises wealth and power at the expense of others. Only in its final moments do we see the victors most enduring reward isolation. There will be blood. And a guy gets beaten to death in the face with a bowling pin. Man, a lot of skeletons in that closet.

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