Elizabeth Magie shipped two rulesets. Parker Brothers kept the cruel one and sold it back to you as Monopoly. Same board, same dice — flip the switch and feel the other one.
History per Mary Pilon, The Monopolists — Magie's 1904 patent, Henry George's single tax, the deleted Prosperity rules.
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Choose your ruleset
She built one board. You pick which lesson it teaches.
Players (you + bots)
You can flip the ruleset switch any time — mid-game — and watch the same board change what it does to people.