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Even playing that way, monopoly is still a single-winner game of course, which is what elizabeth magie wanted to demonstrate.
Another other unintended lesson is that ruthless profit-seeking hacks will enclose / steal any idea or invention, reinvent it, and claim it as their own. It was and remains a model for silicon valley.