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But you don't get UBI/collect $200 every trip around a month to keep the game going a little longer. So it's much worse than this.
That's meant to represent your income, not UBI.
Everyone gets it for "free". You don't have to be guarding the jail square to get it.
Maybe your job is to keep rolling the dice instead of flipping board upside down, which is only way you stop getting $200.
Lizzie Magie, the creator of the predecessor game called The Landlord’s Game, was a georgist who supported UBI.
Sure, but the Landlord's Game was a critique of capitalism. The $200 was supposed to be wages even in her version.
Okay
Only for capitalists!
For everyone stuck in the game. The problem with "capitalism" isn't voluntary market exchanges. It is corrupted markets from hierarchical power discrepancies. UBI, as the power to say no, solves the structural desperation imposed on people threatened by starvation. The monopoly analogy is slightly distorted because there is still some undeveloped land that can compete with existing housing affordability.