{"version":"1.0","provider_name":"Rainbow Dash Network","provider_url":"http:\/\/rainbowdash.net\/","type":"link","title":"RedEnchilada (notice the lack of a space) (redenchilada)'s status on Monday, 01-Jul-13 20:05:05 UTC","author_name":"RedEnchilada (notice the lack of a space) (redenchilada)","author_url":"http:\/\/rainbowdash.net\/redenchilada","url":"http:\/\/rainbowdash.net\/notice\/2753552","html":""[Monopoly] was actually created by a Georgist to illustrate the principle that rent makes landlords richer and tenants poorer. She designed it to be incredibly not fun, to show that if you don\u2019t own property you experience an inevitable foreseeable slow dwindling of your resources until you eventually go bankrupt. She figured that through Monopoly people would be so bored and frustrated that they would understand how terrible the system of rent is\n\nThen Parker Brothers patented it, mass-produced it, people bought it because people have terrible taste in games, and the original creator experienced an inevitable foreseeable slow dwindling of her resources until she died impoverished and obscure""}