Comments by "michael" (@michaeld4861) on "Monopoly is Anti-Landlord Propaganda" video.

  1. Landlords or no, Monopoly is a perfect representation of our current Capitalist system. Look at the elite today, they almost all started off with "properties" or mass amounts of family wealth or even just elite educations and extremely lucky opportunities like Gates' mother being an IBM executive and able to get him his first deal on top of being like the only kid in the world with unfettered access to computers at a time when they were the size of by bedroom. Sure, landlords are probably worse overall compared to oppressive business owners but they both contribute to the same end goal of owning the whole pie themselves.
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  2. A fake rags to riches story is one of the central tenants of American Capitalism. Everyone believes they are a genius but temporarily down on their luck billionaire.
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  3. It's not a surprise that monopoly has railroads, utilities, the water treatment plant, etc. Just look at Nestle pumping lakes dry to sell people bottled water (also they are trying to secure full sole ownership rights for water in places in the US rather than just being able to pump it out at will). Look at utilities paying billions in dividends and jacking up rates while people freeze to death in their homes.
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  4. All working towards monopolies.
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